Westonzoyland
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Westonzoyland is a small village on the Somerset Levels, a few miles from Bridgwater.
[edit] Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
Westonzoyland is home to Somerset's earliest steam-powered pumping station, built in 1830. Once a guardian of the Somerset Levels, now a small museum displaying stationary steam engines and exhibits of land drainage history. Pride of place goes to the station's pumping engine, the Easton and Amos. It is still in the main engine house, built in 1861 to replace an earlier engine that had been carrying out the pumping work since 1831.
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