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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)

Wicken Fen OS 1885

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