Cobbs Engine House 2025

(Properly known as Windmill End Pumping Station), and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II Listed building built around 1831. It housed a stationary steam pump used to pump water firstly from Windmill End Colliery and later other mines in the area. It stands near the Windmill End Junction, where the Dudley No.2 canal and the Boshboil Arm meets the southern end of the Netherton Tunnel branch canal.

Contacts

Address: Bumble Hole Nature Reserve Windmill End, Darby End Dudley West Midlands DY2 9HU

Telephone: 0303 040 4040
Website: View website

Open Days & Times

Access at all times. Visit website for more details.

Travel

By Rail: Rowley Regis / 3 miles

Facilities

Parking
Refreshments
Souvenir Shop
Part disabled access

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The area came into the possession of Sir Horace St Paul from his father-in-law, John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward, on his marriage to John's daughter Anna Maria Ward. It was Horace who instigated the construction of the engine house.