Follow The Steam
Winter Works Open Day
November 23rd 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 to the Beam Engines, suggested donation £5 per head.
Get Involved
Crofton is powered by volunteers! Come and join our friendly team at Crofton Beam Engines, and help to show our wonderful engines and beautiful site to our visitors. We have a wide range of volunteer roles, so there is a task waiting for you whatever your background. Roles include Front of house and tour guides, Engineering, Ground work, Building Maintenance, and Visitor Services.
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
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
Crofton Beam Engines welcomes Classic MG Owners
Aylesbury MG Car Club Members of the Aylesbury MG Car Club paid a visit to Crofton Beam Engines during our steaming weekend in July. They have been to Crofton Beam Engines before but as the weather was fine and sunny that weekend they thought it would be an enjoyable drive out to see us again.…
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”
