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Wicken Fen #2377

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4 sided smock windpump function:Drainage mill - worked occasionally

Signboard says:

This last survivor 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, 8th May 2005

Setting the sails

Setting the sails, 12th May 2007

Book cover: The Drainage of the Fens, published 2003
Author Richard Hills

This England magazine cover showing Wicken Fen drainage mill, issue Autumn 2001
This England magazine

Mill ID 2377

Wicken Fen, , 22/6/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Mill ID 2377

Wicken Fen, , 22/6/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

[Nature reserve] [photo of mill as ruin] [photo] [photos] [Fungi of Wicken Fen] [photo]

Entry in Mills Archive database - #2377 - Wicken Fen Mill, Wicken Fen (has photos)

The mill was moved from Adventurer's Fen. It is still used occasionally to control water level in the Fen and to prevent peat from drying out in summer.

Muggeridge Collection photos

537442 - BURWELL, ADVENTURERS FEN, COPY OF 1099, CAMBS.
537442.1 - BURWELL, aDVENTURERS FEN, Pumping mill, 3/4 Rear, Cambs.

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National Trust visitor info

Windmill, Wicken Fen [2023-09-12] - HD

Historic drainage windmill at Wicken Fen nature reserve [2022-08-29] - HD

Christopher Hilton

Norman's Mill, 1987 [1987-04-00] - HD

Board walk to the windmill, Wicken Fen [1989-11-00] - HD

Wicken Fen [10] [2020-09-09] - HD

Drainage Windpump, Wicken Fen Nature Reserve [2019-05-13] - HD

Drainage Windpump and Boardwalk, Wicken Fen Nature Reserve [2019-05-13] - HD

Windmill at Wicken Fen [1998-02-17] - HD

A drainage windmill [2018-03-11] - HD

Wicken Sedge Fen - and an old windpump [2013-05-04] - HD

Path to the windmill at Wicken Fen [2010-07-09]

Sarah Charlesworth

Windmill at Wicken Fen [2010-07-09]

Sarah Charlesworth

The windmill at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire [2000-07-22] - HD

Working with 3 canvas [2009-05-01]

Working with 2 canvas [2009-05-01]

Fixing canvas [2009-05-01]

Ditch and windpump at Wicken Fen [2009-05-01]

Windpump at Wicken Fen [1993-11-26]

Norman's Mill [2008-03-31] - HD

Wicken Fen Windpump [2007-05-12]

Wind pump gearing at Wicken Fen [2006-10-15]

Wicken Fen. [2006-01-22]

Wicken Fen [1993-11-26]

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Listed Building, Grade II: SMOCK MILL (listed 1959-08-19)

Associated charity #205846 - The National Trust

Official website: Wicken Fen

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News item: Wicken windmills on Mills Weekend (13/5/07)

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