Prickwillow Museum

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Prickwillow Museum

Cambridgeshire

Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum.jpg
The Prickwillow Museum by the River Lark
Type: Technology museum
Location
Grid reference: TL59778242
Location: 52°24’59"N, 0°20’52"E
Village: Prickwillow
History
Technology museum
Information
Website: prickwillowmuseum.com

Prickwillow Museum, formerly known as the Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, stands in the east of Cambridgeshire, within the Great Fen, housed in the old pumping station in Prickwillow, four miles east of the city of Ely.[1][2]

As a museum, it tells the story of the changing face of the Fens and its network of drainage systems and pumping stations.

The museum contains a major collection of large diesel pumping engines which have all been restored to working order.

Mirrlees Pumping Engine in Prickwillow Museum

For one weekend in the early autumn every year the museum hosts the Prickwillow ploughing festival.

See also

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