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Castleton Waterwheel Centre

The museum is run by a local group of volunteers who over the past 25 years have rescued the waterwheel and its house from serious neglect. The wheel, 26 feet in diameter having steel rims, 72 steel buckets, and a cast iron rim-gear, is unique in having three leats providing water in high breast shot array; it also has a system of ventilated buckets invented by William Fairbairn in the early part of the 19th century. It was installed to provide clean water for the inhabitants of Sherborne in 1869 and ran until 1959. In 1876 a Hindley steam engine was installed to boost the output of the waterwheel and we now have a similar engine which has been refurbished and is in a new Hindley museum building.

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