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Tallington. Tallington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 497. [1] It is situated 4 miles (6 km) east from Stamford and 8 miles (13 km) north-west from the centre of Peterborough. The village has around 200 houses.
At Tallington level crossing, it is crossed on the level by the main London-Edinburgh railway line. The frequency of the trains often causes long delays here. [4] [5] After many years, there are at last plans for a solution. [6] Continuing in a roughly easterly direction the road passes Tallington lakes.
The River Welland is a lowland river in the east of England, some 65 miles (105 km) long. It drains part of the Midlands eastwards to The Wash.The river rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally northeast to Market Harborough, Stamford and Spalding, to reach The Wash near Fosdyke.
Twenty-five homes in Tallington, near Bourne, Lincolnshire, flooded in January. The village has bought its own pumps and has set up a volunteer flood response team after becoming frustrated at a ...
Stamford Canal. Stamford Canal, now disused, is one of the earliest post-Roman canals in England. [1] It opened in 1670, around 100 years before the start of the Industrial Revolution which brought about the "golden age" for canals in Britain. [2] Parts of the route can be traced on the ground, though only one lock survives intact.
The remaining lakes over 100 km 2 (39 sq mi) are Lake Maggiore and Lake Lucerne. In total 103 lakes exist that are more than 30 ha (74 acres) in surface area, and a considerable number of smaller lakes. All these lakes are found in the four major river basins of Switzerland: Rhine, Rhone, Po and Danube, [Nb 2] at almost all elevations below the ...
The Great Lakes (French: Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. (Hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, as they are joined by Straits of ...
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA) comprises 1,090,000 acres (440,000 ha) of pristine forests, glacial lakes, and streams in the Superior National Forest. Located entirely within the U.S. state of Minnesota at the Boundary Waters, the wilderness area is under the administration of the United States Forest Service.