Wicken Fen windmill, Cambridgeshire

Wicken Fen #2377

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4 sided smock windpump (drainage) - worked occasionally

Signboard states:

"This last surviour of the many thousand drainage windpumps of the Cambridgeshire fenlands was moved from Adventurers Fen, reconstructed and re-erected here by The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Branch, through the generosity of its chairman Lord Fairhaven, and the skills of the wheelwright C J Ison AD 1956"

Wicken Fen

Wicken Fen, 8th May 2005

Setting the sails

Setting the sails, 12th May 2007

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Wicken Fen.

Wicken Fen Windpump

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Last updated 19th September 2007

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