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A group of people sit on a wooden fence in front of a dark, tiered windpump in a flat, rural field under a pale sky.

Wicken Fen drainage pump (MoC80.68)

Wicken windpump

History of Wicken windpump

Listed Building

Small smock mill, early C20, originally used to drain Adventurers Fen, moved to its present site in 1956 and now a working mill used to pump water into Wicken Fen, a National Trust Nature Reserve. (Historic England)


1885 Ordnance Survey map fragment showing Wicken Fen, including canals, land plots, a kiln, and two pumping windmills.

Wicken Fen OS 1885

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  • windmill

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