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    Stretham Old Engine is a steam-powered engine just south of Stretham in Cambridgeshire, England, that was used to pump water from flood-affected areas...
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    about 74 miles (119 km) by road from London. Its main attraction is Stretham Old Engine, a steam-powered pump used to drain the fens. The pump is still in...
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    windpumps were replaced with powerful coal-powered steam engines, such as Stretham Old Engine, which were themselves replaced with diesel-powered pumps...
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    working steam engine in the world (1779). Stretham Old Engine (Stretham, England) – Statically preserved engine and scoop wheel. Strumpshaw Steam Museum...
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    present) Prickwillow Engine House, near Ely, Cambridgeshire (now the Museum of Fenland Drainage) Stretham Old Engine, Stretham, Cambridgeshire Westonzoyland...
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    Drainage Engine Museum Ramsey Abbey River Cam River Great Ouse River Nene Round Church, Cambridge RSPB Nene Washes RSPB Ouse Washes Stretham Old Engine Three...
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    Dredger Dogdyke Engine, Lincolnshire Pinchbeck Engine, Lincolnshire Pode Hole, Lincolnshire (scoop wheel no longer present) Stretham Old Engine, Cambridgeshire...
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    Abbey Pumping Station (category Preserved beam engines)
    Company Cambridge Museum of Technology Prickwillow Museum Stretham Old Engine Anson Engine Museum Nottingham Industrial Museum "Abbey Pumping Station"...
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    Museum Rhondda Heritage Park Scottish Industrial Railway Centre Stretham Old Engine Allihies Copper Mine Museum, County Cork Arigna Mining Experience...
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    June 2010. "The Stretham old engine". Stretham old engine. Retrieved 15 June 2010. "The museum of fenland drainage". Prickwillow engine trust, registered...
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    Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2017-08-01. "Stretham Old Engine - used to drain the Fens of flood water for over a century - wins...
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    teas and limited wheelchair access are offered. Prickwillow Museum Stretham Old Engine Wheeler M.inst.C.E, W.H. (1868). History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire...
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    IDB have another museum. Dogdyke Pumping Station Stretham Old Engine Historic England. "Pinchbeck Engine (352315)". Research records (formerly PastScape)...
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    Papplewick Pumping Station (category Preserved beam engines)
    Mill Meece Pumping Station Prickwillow Museum Stretham Old Engine Cambridge Museum of Technology Anson Engine Museum Crossness Pumping Station Cross-Rudkin...
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  • contemporary stained glass, located in Ely Cathedral Stretham Old Engine Stretham Technology Working steam engine Taggart Gallery and Museum Great Staughton Art...
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  • trying to preserve the Stretham Old Engine that once drained the Waterbeach Level. Hills researched the history of this engine and the Fens, and, after...
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    Prickwillow ploughing festival. Other land drainage engines that are now preserved as museums Stretham Old Engine Dogdyke Pumping Station Wicken Fen Cambridge...
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    Cambridge Museum of Technology (category Preserved stationary steam engines)
    electrical apparatuses and more. Prickwillow Museum Stretham Old Engine Anson Engine Museum Historic England. "Old Cheddar's Lane pumping station (1006896)". National...
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    which was considerably shorter and steeper than the existing route via Stretham and Ely. The project, which also included cutting or improving eight other...
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    Museum of Power (category Preserved stationary steam engines)
    Museum of Power, a museum of internal combustion engines in West Wales Prickwillow Museum Stretham Old Engine Cambridge Museum of Technology "National Monument...
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    birds. A former railway bridge carries the Downs Link over the river at Stretham Manor. There are a number of salterns to the east of the river, which were...
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    Herbert Clarke (guard), who uncoupled the rest of the train and drove the engine and lead wagon clear of the town, where it exploded, killing Jim Nightall...
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    needed] Another sister Anne Brunsell, married a clergyman and is buried in Stretham. On 25 June 1650, Wren entered Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied...
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    for building a Bridge cross the River Ouze, at or near a Place called Stretham Ferry, in the County of Cambridge; and for repairing and widening and making...
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    places as Billingford Mill in Norfolk, Upper Hellesdon Mill in Norwich, and Stretham Mill in Cambridgeshire. The tower mill also was seen as a cultural object...
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    brick engine shed was also provided, with a 42 ft turntable, on a goods spur; initially it had only a single road to accommodate a trio of engines, but...
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  • Prickwillow Museum is housed in the old pumping station and contains a major collection of working pumping engines. The village is also home to the Ely...
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    June 1966. Located on East Station Road just off Town Bridge, only the engine sheds remain. The station had services running west to Northampton and Rugby...
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  • Saunderson's Mill TL 284 420 Smock 1805 Windmill World Stretham TL 512 750 Post Demolished c. 1880 Stretham Stretham Windmill TL 512 750 Tower 1880 Windmill World...
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  • images Old Engine House Stretham Boiler house 1831 13 May 1988 TL5165973009 52°20′03″N 0°13′28″E / 52.334207°N 0.22441°E / 52.334207; 0.22441 (Old Engine...
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