Beam Engine housing
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Beam Engine housing by Tom Sargent as part of the Geograph project.
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Beam Engine housing
Image: © Tom Sargent Taken: 20 Aug 2007
Now ruined, this building was part of a beam engine housing. It was built to drain the local pits in the 18th century. It was later reused as a doocot. A full size working beam engine can be seen in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.014454
Longitude
-3.5825