Papplewick Pumping Station

View of the Engine House across the Cooling Pond

Papplewick Pumping Station is Britain's finest working Victorian water pumping station. It boasts a range of original features including an ornate engine house, ornamental cooling pond and a boiler house complete with six Lancashire boilers, all set amidst formal landscaped grounds.

For further information contact the museum (see 24 Hour Museum).

Papplewick Pumping Station offers a fun and exciting range of opportunities for pupils with a broad range of national curriculum linked sessions available for primary and secondary school pupils.