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Stretham

The Stretham Old Engine, a fine example of a land-drainage steam engine, is housed in a restored, tall-chimneyed brick engine house. Dating from 1831, it is one of 90 steam pumping engines installed throughout the Fens to replace some 800 windmills. It is the last to survive, having worked until 1925 and still under restoration. During the great floods of 1919 it really earned its keep by working non-stop for 47 days and nights.

This unique insight into Fenland history and industrial archaeology has limited visitng times - Tel: 01353 648578; on certain dates the engine and its wooden scoop-wheel are rotated (by electricity, alas!). The adjacent Stoker's Cottage contains four plainly appointed rooms with period furniture and old photographs of fen drainage down the years.

Downfield Windmill, six miles southeast of Ely on the A142 bypass, was built in 1726 as a smock mill, destroyed by gales and rebuilt in 1890 as an octagonal tower mill. It still grinds corn and produces a range of flours and breads for sale (open Sundays and Bank Holidays).