Bourne Eau
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Bourne Eau is a short river which rises from an artesian spring in the town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, England, and flows in an easterly direction to join the River Glen at Tongue End. Within the town
The location of the terminus of the Bourne Eau Navigation at Bourne
Bourne Eau outside the Abbey Church at Bourne. The iron bridge is dated 1832.
The pumping station at Tongue End, which replaced the former sluice between Bourne Eau and the River Glen.
The pumping station for the South Fen. The buildings carry the dates 1946 (left) and 1976 (right).
Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel
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Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel was an engineering project dating from the 1630s as one of the earliest modern attempts to drain The Fens in Lincolnshire. Rendered obsolete by the mechanical drainage impro
Bourne Eau
…Steam pumping was introduced in 1845, and the drainage is the responsibility of the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board (IDB). To drain the South Fen Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel was constructed to take water under the River Glen to the Counter Drain. Various engines were used to pump water through the tunnel, but after the…
Looking along the original drain from above the source of the tunnel