NHER 4467 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval drainage mill and pumping station

Drainage pump.
Five sail mill on (S1).
E. Rose (NLA).

Ruins of a later engine house, disused and dilapidated. Inscription on north entrance 'erected by the proprietor Edward Lowton Jonks (Tonks?) Esq 1849'.
R. Silvester (NAU), 1 April 1987.

Photograph at Stretham Old Engine Museum, Cambridgeshire, labelled 'Hilgay, Wood Hall estate pumping station' apparently refers to this building even though it is just in the next parish. States that it worked from 1849 to 1907.
E. Rose (NLA), 22 April 2003.

(S2) confirms this was the engine known as Hilgay Wood hall. The plaque must have been very eroded at the time of R. Silvester (NAU)’s visit as it in fact reads William Lowton Jones. Large steam engine with two boilers; sold off 1878 to Major Stocks, hence known as Jones’s or Stocks’s engine. In 1907 the station did not close down, it was converted to a vertical steam engine driving a Dodmans Triton. The engine was replaced 1940 by a Ruston diesel. Abandoned 1974; remains derelict but intact.
E. Rose (NLA), 22 October 2004

December 2009.
Proposals for change of use from a pumping station to residential accomodation,
See Design and Access Statement (S3) and plans in file,
H. White, (NLA), 21 April 2010