Barlings Eau

Barlings Eau
River
Barlings Eau to the west of Stainton by Langworth
Country	England
Counties	Lincolnshire
Source
- location	Cold Hanworth
Mouth
- location	Short Ferry

[ ] Barlings Eau
Source Sources Spridlington Road Cold Hanworth medieval village A46 Snarford Bridge Dunholme Beck Scothern North Drain Stainton Lane Bridge Lincoln - Market Rasen railway A158 Langworth Bridge Barlings Abbey Pipeline to River Ancholme Pumping station (EA) Short Ferry Bridge Stainfield pumping station (IDB) Former marina old course of R Witham Bardney Lock River Witham

Barlings Eau is a small river near Barlings, Lincolnshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Witham, joining it near Short Ferry.

Barlings Eau rises as three streams which join together near the medieval village of Cold Hanworth. One rises to the east of Spridlington and flows in a south-easterly direction. A second rises to the north of Faldingworth, flows to the west under the A46 road, and then turns to the south. A third rises to the west of Faldingworth, and again flows west and south to the junction. The first is below the 50-foot (15 m) contour, while the other two start above the 65-foot (20 m) contour. At Snarford, it is joined by two other streams from the west, and passes under the A46 at Snarford Bridge. Several more streams join it before it reaches Stainton by Langworth, where it passes under the Lincoln to Market Rasen railway.

A further three streams join before it passes under the A158 road at Langworth. It crosses Newball Common, and flows along the eastern edge of Barlings Abbey. The Abbey was founded by the Premonstratensian order, known in Britain as the White Canons, in 1156. The remains are quite fragmentary, but parts of the Abbey Church are grade I listed and the remains of the Abbey are grade II listed. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Just before the river crosses under Ferry Road at Short Ferry Bridge, there is a large Environment Agency pumping station, and a small electric pumping station maintained by the Witham Third District Internal Drainage Board below it. Finally, the river joins the old course of the River Witham, which joins the new course just below Bardney Lock. The old course and the start of Barlings Eau up to Short Ferry Bridge is navigable, and there was a marina at Short Ferry, but the connection to the river channel has been filled in. The former basin is now a lake in a caravan park.