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Prickwillow Museum, formerly known as the Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, tells the story of the changing face of the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership - Prickwillow Museum
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Prickwillow Museum is funded and run by the Prickwillow Engine Trust, a registered charity, and has received funding from the
Prickwillow Museum
- official site
Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership
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Prickwillow Museum, formerly known as the Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, tells the story of the changing face of the Fens
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and its network of drainage systems and pumping station
Pumping stations, also called pumphouses in situations such as well drilling, drilled wells and drinking water, are facilities containing pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are used for a variety of infrastru ...
s. The museum is housed in the old pumping station in Prickwillow
Prickwillow is a village in East Cambridgeshire with an estimated population of 440. Originally a small hamlet on the banks of the River Great Ouse, it is now on the banks of the River Lark since re-organisation of the river system. It lies in t ...
, east of the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire
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, England
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./ref> The museum contains a major collection of large
diesel
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* Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression
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pumping engines which have all been restored to working order.
Prickwillow Museum is funded and run by the Prickwillow Engine Trust, a registered charity, and has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund, formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.
History
The fund's predecessor bodies were ...
and The Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership The Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership scheme (OWLP) is a 3-year project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund which runs from 2014 - 2017. The scheme focuses on the promotion of the area surrounding the Ouse Washes, the heart of the Cambridgeshire ...
.
For one weekend in the early autumn every year the museum hosts the Prickwillow ploughing festival.
See also
; Other land drainage engines that are now preserved as museums *Stretham Old Engine
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 of The Fens back into the River Great Ouse. It is one of only three surviving drainage engines ...
*Dogdyke Pumping Station
The Dogdyke Engine is a drainage engine near Tattershall, Lincolnshire, in England. The drainage of of land around Tattershall was authorised in 1796, and came under the control of the Witham Third District commissioners in 1844
The building ...
*Wicken Fen
Wicken Fen is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. It is also a National Nature Reserve, and a Nature Conservation Review site. It is protected by international designations as a Ramsar wetland si ...
*Cambridge Museum of Technology
The Cambridge Museum of Technology is an industrial heritage museum situated in Cambridge, England. The original building, a Scheduled Ancient Monument,
housed a combined sewage pumping and waste destructor station built in 1894. The Museum h ...
References
External links
Prickwillow Museum
- official site
Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership
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