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Machinery Mile

What is the Machinery Mile?

The Great Machinery Mile and Heritage Museum hosts a range of equipment from standing engines to earthmoving machinery. It's a wonderful display of machinery, some of it very rare and almost all collected within 100 miles of the town. 


You can purchase the Machinery Mile books from the Wellshot Centre. This book lists all the original machinery, the type of machinery and where it came from.


Not all images are shown so please make sure you get out to Ilfracombe and make sure you explore all the pieces of machinery. 

The Machinery Mile is accessible hours a day. It is free of charge, however a donation would be greatly appreciated, to help with the maintenance of machinery and grounds. 

You can see many forms of old machinery, including a 1917 Ruston Proctor Tractor (only two more of this model left in the world), Steam Devil, a big Excavator driven by a three horse powered steam engine, which runs along one railway line. Made in 1880 and sold in 1882, it would be safe to say this excavator is the only remaining one of its kind. There’s also a 12 tonne Stuart Tank that has been converted to a dozer; the first series grader made by Caterpillar in 1935, an early 1900 Lacre Light Truck, and a 1914 Republic Truck.

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