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High Peak Junction with detailed shots of the beam pumping engine in action

The Leawood Pump House (also known as High Peak Pump House) was built near Cromford, Derbyshire, England in 1849 to supply water to the Cromford Canal, built some 50 years previously. It is a Grade II listed building. Located a little along the canal towpath from High Peak Junction, it stands to a height of 45 feet on the right bank of the River Derwent, at the end of the Derwent Aqueduct, and has a 95-foot chimney stack with a cast-iron cap. The Watt-type beam engine was designed and erected by Graham and Company of Milton Works, Elsecar, Sheffield. The beam length is 33 feet, the piston diameter 50 inches, stroke of 10 feet and the engine works at 7 strokes per minute. The boilers, replaced in 1900, have a pressure of 40 p.s.i. They were originally Midland Railway locomotive boilers.