When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ladybower Reservoir - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybower_Reservoir

    The reservoir is owned by the water company Severn Trent. [3] The area is now a tourist attraction, with the Fairholmes visitors' centre located at the northern tip of Ladybower. The east arm of the reservoir, fed by the Ladybower Brook, is overlooked by Hordron Edge stone circle. [4]

  3. Upper Derwent Valley - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Derwent_Valley

    Piped intakes were constructed from the rivers Ashop and Alport to the west to feed directly into the Derwent reservoir, but soon demand increased further to the point where another reservoir was required. The larger Ladybower Reservoir, built largely during World War II, necessitated the flooding of the villages of Derwent and Ashopton, with ...

  4. Derwent Reservoir (Derbyshire) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_Reservoir_(Derbyshire)

    Derwent Reservoir is the middle of three reservoirs in the Upper Derwent Valley in the north of Derbyshire, England. It lies approximately 10 mi (16 km) from Glossop and 10 mi (16 km) from Sheffield. The River Derwent flows first through Howden Reservoir, then Derwent Reservoir and finally through Ladybower Reservoir.

  5. Derwent Valley Heritage Way - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_Valley_Heritage_Way

    The walk starts from Ladybower Reservoir in the Peak District National Park via Chatsworth, the scenery around the Derbyshire Dales, and through the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. It follows the Riverside Path through Derby and continues onwards to the historic inland port of Shardlow .

  6. Derwent, Derbyshire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent,_Derbyshire

    Derwent was a village 'drowned' in 1944 when the Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire, England was created. The village of Ashopton , Derwent Woodlands church, and Derwent Hall were also 'drowned' in the construction of the reservoir.

  7. List of reservoirs in the Peak District - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reservoirs_in_the...

    Ramsden Reservoir 1883 394,000 0.5 Bollinhurst Reservoir 1872 384,145 0.5 Wessenden Head Reservoir: 1881 372,780 0.3 Blakeley Reservoir 1904 363,690 0.4 Horse Coppice Reservoir 1861 331,865 0.5 Bilberry Reservoir 1840 254,000 0.3 Riding Wood Reservoir 1878 235,000 0.4 Rivelin Dams Upper: 1848

  8. Yorkshire Bridge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Bridge

    Yorkshire Bridge is a small hamlet at grid reference near the Ladybower Reservoir dam in the English county of Derbyshire. [1] Administratively the area forms part of the civil parish of Bamford and the district of High Peak. The people who built the Ladybower Dam wall lived in the houses at Yorkshire Bridge. [2] Yorkshire Bridge

  9. Howden Reservoir - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howden_Reservoir

    The reservoir is bounded at the southern end by Howden Dam; below this, the Derwent flows immediately into Derwent Reservoir and subsequently the Ladybower Reservoir. Other tributaries include the River Westend, Howden Clough and Linch Clough. Work commenced on the dam's construction on 16 July 1901 and completed in July 1912.