Prickwillow

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Situated in the heart of Cambridgeshire's Fenland, the village of Prickwillow is just 4 miles east of the city of Ely. It is the site of a drainage engine museum.

The museum was set up in 1982 to save the large diesel engine dating from 1922. The building originally housed a steam pumping engine and now, apart from the large Mirrlees diesel, contains other diesels, dating from 1919, recovered from local pumping stations and restored by volunteers. The Mirrlees is demonstrated on several days throughout the year.

The area near the new road bridge over the River Lark is pretty and well kept and close to the main points of interest in the village - the church, Prickwillow Pottery and the drainage engine museum.

St. Peter's Church, which dates from 1868, was built on piles and due to the high water table, burials take place at Ely. The vicarage was built with two steps up to the front door but the sinking of the peat resulted in the building of many more. Plantation Farm and Peacocks Farm, to the east of the village off the A1101, were scenes of archaeological digs in the 1930’s that established the remains of Roman and three earlier levels of prehistoric human habitation.