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
Looking along the original drain from above the source of the tunnel
Tongue End
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Tongue End is a small village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 4 miles east from Bourne and 6 miles south-west from Spalding, and alongside the Counter Drain that
Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel
…steam engines were used to assist the flow through the tunnel. The location is around 500m upstream on the Glen of the confluence with the Bourne Eau. Tongue End is the nearest settlement. The modern by-road alongside the original drain to the tunnel is still called Tunnel Bank. The Gilbert Heathcote for whom…
The pumping station (built 1966) at the confluence of the River Glen and the Bourne Eau.
Track near Tongue End.
Bridge over the Counter Drain