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A tall brick engine house with a chimney stands beside a smaller house, separated from a grassy bank by a wooden fence.

Stretham Old Engine House (1831) (MoC113.71)

Stretham Old Engine

History of Stretham Old Engine

Listed Building

Engine House. 1831 Gault brick, Flemish bond with slate roofs. … An Act of parliament was passed in 1741 for the drainage of Waterbeach level. The water was pumped from the fen to the Old West River. (Historic England)

1886 Ordnance Survey map showing Stretham Engine, Engine Farm, a wooden bridge, and surrounding fields with parcel numbers.

Stretham Old Engine O/S 1886

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretham_Old_Engine

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