Prickwillow Engine Museum

A landmark drainage museum where preserved pumping engines explain how engineering transformed the low-lying Fens.

The museum’s historic pumping engines turn fenland drainage from an abstract idea into a story of machines, labour and changing water levels. Prickwillow’s position in the low-lying landscape helps explain why this engineering mattered to farms and settlements across the region. The scale and workings of the engines are the main attraction, with interpretation connecting them to the wider history of reclamation. Look beyond the machinery to the surrounding drains and open fields: they are part of the same continuing relationship between people and water.