Dogdyke Pumping Station

Dogdyke Pumping Station Preservation Trust
Formation1977
PurposeThe preservation of the Pumping Station, arranging events and demonstration of the pumping engines.
Location
  • Bridge Farm, Tattershall LN4 4JG (Access via private farm road, only on steaming days)
Websitewww.dogdyke.com

The Dogdyke Pumping Station is a drainage engine near Tattershall, Lincolnshire, in England. The drainage of 2,500 acres (1,012 ha) of land around Tattershall was authorised in 1796, and came under the control of the Witham Third District commissioners in 1844.[1]

The building dates to 1856 when a rotative beam engine was built to replace windmill style engines possibly dating to 1540 and draining land between the rivers Bain and Witham.[2] The engine discharged into the River Witham,[3] but has a long fetch from a drain parallel to the river called The Dogdyke engine drain originating just south of Kirkstead at a place called Parkbeck.[4]

1856 is relatively late and Wheeler does say that the 1856 engine replaces one installed in 1841,[1] but the location of that is unknown.

The building is a grade II listed ancient monument.[5]

  1. ^ a b Wheeler M.inst.C.E, W.H. (1868). History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire (1 ed.). Newcombe, Boston.
  2. ^ "National monument record".
  3. ^ Hinde, K.S.G. (2006). Fenland Pumping Engines. Landmark. p. 175. ISBN 1-84306-188-0.
  4. ^ "IDB map showing start of engine drain". Archived from the original on 14 March 2012.
  5. ^ "Details of ancient monument listing no. 264".