Pinchbeck Pumping Station
Pinchbeck, on Spalding Marsh, Lincolnshire has a marsh drainage pumping station which still contains its original A frame, rotative, beam pumping engine, which, between 1833 and 1952 was used to drive a 24 foot diameter scoop wheel - basically a large diameter waterwheel driven by the engine and used to ladle water from low level to high level to drain the marsh which was below sea level.
It was the last beam engine to work in the fens but two other beam drainage engines survive at Dogdyke (near Tattershall, Lincolnshire) and Stretham (near Ely, Cambridgeshire) Dogdyke is steamed, there are moves to steam the other two following restoration.
A more modern fen drainage engine with a Marshall high speed (well 140 rpm) tandem compound horizontal engine driving a centrifugal pump survivies at Owston Ferry, South Axholme, Lincolnshire.