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| • | Twenty is a small, somewhat remote hamlet with an unusual name, 4 miles (6 km) east of the market town of Bourne, (between Bourne and Spalding) in Lincolnshire, England, at National Grid reference TF153207, . Agriculture is the major industry.
It is situated on the A151 road, possibly originally a Roman road or Norman causeway, a road today notable for the very deep drainage dyke that runs alongside it.
Twenty is surrounded by rich land reclaimed from wetland which was formerly fenland interspersed with marine creeks. It is part of the broad lowland, reclaimed from freshwater fen, marine marshland and creek levees, known as the Lincolnshire fens). It is now some of the richest agricultural silt (marine) and black (freshwater) land in England, though the oxidation of the humus of the black soil has progressively exposed more of the clay derived from the underlying former salt-marsh. When the Lindsey level was re-drained after the seventeenth century Civil Wars, the new scheme was named the 'Black Sluice Level' after the sluice at Boston, through which it drained to the sea. Thus, Twenty stands in Bourne North Fen, which is the southern end of the Black Sluice Level.
Several media stunts have associated themselves with the name of the place, in the past few decades; most notably by The Sun newspaper around its £0.20 price. Its inhabitants too, have a sense of humour. For example, its horizon is as wide as the sea's - so a regulation pattern road sign appeared, declaring that Twenty had been twinned with The Moon. Across this had been spray-painted the legend - "no atmosphere".
Source: [wikipedia: twenty, lincolnshire]
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