Follow The Steam
Winter Works Open Day
December 21st 2024.
We will be pleased to welcome visitors for an opportunity to look “behind the scenes” at our winter maintenance and to speak with our knowledgeable volunteers.
Free entry, suggested donation of £5 per head would be welcome!
Get Involved
Come and join our friendly team at Crofton Beam Engines, and help to show our wonderful engines and beautiful site to our visitors. You don’t have to be interested in steam engines. You can welcome our visitors, help with a pop-up cafe, or keep our grounds looking the best for our visitors to enjoy. These are some of the ways you can help. We’d love to see you here.
Steam Experience
Have you ever wanted to stoke a huge coal fired boiler or operate the oldest fully working beam engine in the world? Please check later for 2025 dates.
Pop-Up Refreshments (Steam Days Only)
While you are at Crofton on a Steaming Day don’t forget to visit the pop-up refreshment tent. We will be serving tea, coffee and a variety of soft drinks as well as cakes, biscuits and other delights to keep you sustained while visiting the engines and meeting our wonderful volunteers. Open 10:30 to 16:00. All proceeds from the pop-up will be donated to Crofton, helping ensure it’s future.
Latest News
Gill Simmons from Brave Bold Drama visited Crofton
Gill Simmons from Brave Bold Drama This week, Gill Simmons from Brave Bold Drama visited Crofton to have a tour of the site from one of our fantastic volunteers and talk to our Learning and Community Engagement Officer and Site Manager. Whitney & Gill discuss ideas. Gill (right) is working with Crofton to help us develop our Arts Award Discover…
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Sweeping The Boiler Flues
One of the many jobs One of the many jobs to be done during the winter months at Crofton Beam Engines is to sweep the boiler flues clean, inside our Lancashire boiler. We will then be ready for the next steaming season in 2025. Our friends from Wilkins Chimney Sweep came along to do the…
Ian Broom and Ron Plaster visit Crofton Beam Engines
Ian and Ron on a mission At our last steaming weekend, two of the original volunteers from over 50 years ago called in to see us at Crofton Beam Engines. Ian Broom (left) and Ron Plaster. All those years ago they came to Crofton on a mission. Ian recalls “As I described it, it was…
Read more Ian Broom and Ron Plaster visit Crofton Beam Engines
Visit by narrowboat
and stop by on the
Kennet & Avon Canal
A Word from our Patron Phil Harding
“I’ve known Crofton all my life and still enjoy visiting this special place. Crofton is important both as part of Wiltshire’s social history and internationally as a working steam pumping station”
