Pinchbeck Engine | |
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Type | Beam engine |
Coordinates | 52°49′04″N 0°07′45″W / 52.81777°N 0.12910°W |
OS grid reference | TF 26174 26148 |
Built | 1833 |
Owner | Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board |
Official name | Pinchbeck engine |
Reference no. | 1004966 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Pinchbeck Engine Drainage Pump |
Designated | 13 January 1988 |
Reference no. | 1146782 |
The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England.[1] Until it was shut down in 1952, the engine discharged into the Blue Gowt which joins the River Glen at Surfleet Seas End.[2]