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Twenty is a
The area falls within the drainage area of the Black Sluice Black Sluice IDB
/ref> They maintain a small electric pumping station to the west of the crossroads, called ''Twenty Pumping Station''
District Council page on Bourne
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Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
{{Authority control Hamlets in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District
hamlet
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in the South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford, Li ...
district of Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
, England. It is situated approximately east from the market town
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of Bourne
Bourne may refer to:
Places UK
* Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town
** Bourne Abbey
** Bourne railway station
* Bourne (electoral division), West Sussex
* Bourne SSSI, Avon, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Burrington, North Somerset
* Bourne ...
, and west from Spalding. Agriculture is the major industry.
Location
Twenty is situated on theA151 road
The A151 road is relatively minor part of the British road system. It lies entirely in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Its western end lies at coordinates otherwise, .
The British Road Numbering System
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, possibly originally a Roman road
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or Norman
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* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
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causeway
A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Tra ...
, a road today notable for the very deep drainage dyke that runs alongside it. Nearby are Guthram Gowt and West Pinchbeck. Immediately to the south is the River Glen.
No separate population statistic is available for Twenty. The best available report lumps together Dyke, Twenty, South Fen and Spalding Road outside Bourne, with a total of 495, with Dyke being the largest.
Modern drainage
The area falls within the drainage area of the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board
An internal drainage board (IDB) is a type of operating authority which is established in areas of special drainage need in England and Wales with permissive powers to undertake work to secure clean water drainage and water level management withi ...
./ref> They maintain a small electric pumping station to the west of the crossroads, called ''Twenty Pumping Station''
See also
*List of places with numeric names
This is a list of places with numeric names.
0
* :nl:Nulde, (zero), Netherlands, old name for a hamlet in Putten
* Nullarbor, locality in South Australia (Latin: no trees)
* Nullarbor Plain, desert region in Western and South Australia (Latin ...
References
* Wheeler, W.H. ''A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire'', 2nd edn. Boston & London. 1896. Facsimile edn Paul Watkins. Stamford. 1990. . * Ordnance Survey. 1:25 000 First Series. Sheet TF12 (Dowsby). 1955. * Croft, E. ''Lincolnshire Railway Stations. Reflections of a Bygone Age.'' Nottingham. 1993. . (a photo of Twenty Station). * Dugdale, W. ''Imbanking and Draining''. 1662. (Map of the Lindsey Level.) * Bevis, T. ''Hereward and De Gestis Herwardi Saxonis'' Westrydale Press. March. 1981. (direct translation of the Peterborough monk's work). * Sugar Beet: see Discovery and ulterior links. * Sugar Beet: slightly fuller history in French: see Histoire and ulterior links (External links).External links
*District Council page on Bourne
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Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
{{Authority control Hamlets in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District