Denver Sluice
Located south west of Downham Market, the Denver Complex is probably the largest combination of sluices anywhere in the country. From the 1600’s when the original Denver sluice was constructed, its purpose has been to protect the people of the fens from flooding.
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Pinchbeck Pumping Station Museum
The museum is housed in the 1833 steam-powered pumping station building. View the information boards and artefacts which tell the history of drainage in this area from Roman times to the present day. The Pinchbeck Engine is a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire.
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Prickwillow Pumping Station
The mainstay of the collection is the six large diesel pumping engines, all British-built and of early to mid twentieth century design, rescued from Fenland pumping stations. The Mirrlees engine is the original engine installed at Prickwillow in 1924, the remainder have been rescued from other sites.
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Stretham Pumping Station
The last survivor in the southern Fenland of over 100 steam-powered pumping stations applied to fen drainage in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is also the largest and most complete example of any of these, and one of the earliest, having been erected in 1831.
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