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This drainage mill was restored by the Norfolk Windmills Trust between 1981 and 2006. It is unusual in that the sails rotate in a clockwise direction unlike most mills. It worked until 1941 when new diesel engines were installed nearby. The corrugated iron Seven Mile pumping shed houses the two Ruston Hornsby diesel engines which operated until 1984. The building was moved to its present position during flood defence works in 2003.

This pumping station was built by the Isle of Axholme Drainage Board in 1910 when two tandem compound steam engines by Marshalls Sons and Company Limited of Gainsborough were installed to drive a pair of Drysdale centrifugal pumps. Steam was provided by two Cornish boilers which were also made by Marshall. The site is now partly a museum and some of the old plant is demonstrated on open days.

This grade II listed building dates from 1867 and stands over the Boating Dike / North Engine Drain. It originally contained a James Watt low pressure condensing beam engine from the Soho, Birmingham, works, driving a scoop wheel. This was replaced in 1928, and again in 1952 with electrically driven pumps.

Eighteenth century drainage sough serving colliery workings in north west England.

Messrs Clayton and Brooke, proprietors of Norbury Colliery, erected a large beam pumping engine in the 1840s to manage the water in the workings. The water raised was allowed to run into the nearby Norbury Brook but the construction of the railway line to Whaley Bridge crossed the outflow necessitating the construction of a long brick-lined culvert to carry the water through the railway embankment. Although the colliery closed in 1892, water continues to flow through the culvert from the shaft which is around 900ft deep.

Driven around 1750 the Goyt's Moss Sough drains the Yard seam under moorland at the head of the Goyt Valley.

The Bank End sough is about 2,100 yards in length from the terminal shaft near Furness Vale to the portal where the mine water is discharged into the River Goyt. It drained workings in the Yard seam between Newtown and Furness Vale. The arched section seen here is constructed of gritstone and appears to be in good condition. It was probably constructed before 1811 and the last mines that it served closed about 1921.