Guthram Gowt
…1766. In the 19th and early 20th century a steam-powered drainage engine was in existence, set up following acts of Parliament of 1841 and 1843. The Bourne Drainage Act 1841 (4 & 5 Vict. c. cxiii) authorized the building of an engine to drain Bourne North Fen, replacing engines (probably windmills), erected after the Bourn…