River Cong (Norfolk)

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image_caption =River Cong
country =England
state = Norfolk
region = East of England
district = King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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source =Manor Farm, Congham, Norfolk
mouth = Merges with the River Babingley
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map_caption = River Cong Within King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
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The River Cong is in the west of the county of Norfolk. Its is a tributary of the River Babingley. The spring rises in a meadow pool on the Hillington side of Manor Farm, Congham. From here the river flows through the wood and over a small waterfall, where in the past it powered all the machinery within the Congham Oil Mill (gbmapping|TF71342475), which is now known as Congham Lodge.

Congham Oil Mill

The mill was built for the use of processing Whales. Whales were transported from Kings Lynn docks by horse and wagon.The mill produced oil from whale blubber. The resultant whale bones were then taken by road to Narborough Bone Mill where they were ground into fertiliser. Some of the whale bones remain as ornaments at Congham Lodge to this day. The waterfall that drove the mill still remains. There would have been an horrendous smell especially in the summer, which was why the mill was situated away from King's Lynn itself. The Cong then flows on under the A148 and joins the Babingley close by the Gatton Waters caravan site.

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*The River Babingley