Tongue End
Introduction __NOTOC__'''Tongue End''' is a small village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated  east from Bourne and  south-west from Spalding, and alongside the Counter Drain that runs between Baston and Pode Hole.Tongue End comprises Victorian red-brick farmworkers' cottages and early 20th-century former council houses. It once had a village school (built in 1876), and three public houses.The name is said to refer to the shape of the land between the rivers Glen and Bourne Eau. There is a location on the Stamford Canal which is similarly formed and has the same name.Tongue End falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board. Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel drained into the Counter Drain nearby.Image:RiverGlenTongueEnd.jpg|The pumping station (built 1966) at the confluence of the River Glen and the Bourne Eau.Image:Tongue_End_track_Lincolnshire.jpg|Track near Tongue End.Image:Bridge over the counter drain at Tongue End.jpg | Bridge over the Counter Drain
See also * Bourne Eau* Counter Drain railway station
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