Carpalla engine house
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Carpalla engine house
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Jul 1989
I've struggled long and hard with the location of this but I think I'm right for the grid reference on the solitary engine house in the middle. Streetview has also pinned down my position now. The engine house is one of the few with a roof and housed a 40" engine moved from a metalliferous mine at St Agnes. Here it drained a china clay pit which is now flooded as a mica dam. The engine was removed in 1944 and is in store at the Wroughton store of the Science Museum.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.34989
Longitude
-4.863928