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Flush Bracket S2845: Smithey Fen Engine   

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NE face, 3' from N angle of Smithy Fen Engine House - 11.405' [on 6" sheet Cambridgeshire 29SW; line Earith to Streatham; Ouse Catchment Ref. Pt. No. 19] (later relevelled as 11.386'); Pumping Station, N angle, NE face - 1km East along the South bank from High Bridge Farm Trig.

Location
Grid reference: TL 4477 7192.
Landranger 154: Cambridge & Newmarket, Saffron Walden.
Structure: Pumping station.
Waypoint: FS2845.

Neighbouring Flush Brackets
S8404 Queenholme Farm 1.97km to the west.
S8400 Twenty Pence 2.71km to the east.
10182 Smithey Fen Bridge 2.99km to the south.
1208 Haddenham, Hill Row 3.76km to the north.
1209 Haddenham, Jubilee Tea Rooms 3.92km to the northeast.
The nearest fundamental bench mark is Wicken, 9.43km to the east.

Logged Visits
Logged on 13th January 2007 by RHW. Grid reference: TL 448 719. Condition: Good.
N angle NE face of pumping station. PS now disused, but they still start the engine once a month, according to a local I met on the levee path. 3-FB walk, also taking in S8404 and the trig S8068.

Logged on 3rd October 2005 by iainmac. Grid reference: TL 44770 71927. Condition: Good.
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