Where is Haweswater Reservoir?

Haweswater Reservoir is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5189°, -2.8047°.

Reservoirs & lochs · North East England

Haweswater Reservoir

Haweswater Reservoir — reservoir in the United Kingdom.

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Haweswater Reservoir is a reservoir in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "reservoir in the United Kingdom". Coordinates: 54.5189°, -2.8047°.

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Protected designations

Site of Special Scientific Interest: Naddle Forest SSSI
Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Eden and Tributaries SSSI

Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.

From the Wikipedia article

Haweswater is a reservoir in the valley of Mardale, Cumbria in the Lake District, England. The man-made reservoir, which was created by damming the original natural lake, was completed by 1935. It raised the water level in the valley by 29 m (95 ft). The valley was dammed by Manchester Corporation, after it had obtained permission from the UK Parliament through the passing of the Manchester Corporation Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. cxix). The local act of Parliament was for the supply of drinking water to Manchester. However, the decision caused public outcry because the farming villages of Measand and Mardale Green would be lost when Mardale was flooded. Construction work on the dam began in 1929. Haweswater was completely flooded by 1935. The reservoir is now owned and managed by United Utilities. It supplies about 25% of North West England's water supply.

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History

Haweswater was originally a natural lake about 4 km long. A tongue of land at Measand divided the lake almost in two. The upper and lower reaches of the lake were known as High Water and Low Water. In 1929 work started to build the dam wall across the valley floor. At the time of construction, its design was considered to be at the forefront of civil engineering technology because it was the world's first hollow buttress dam. The wall would be created from 44 separate buttressed units joined by flexible joints. When the dam was completed by 1935, it measured 470 m long and 27.5 m high. A 1.4 m wide parapet runs atop the length of the dam. Building supplies were brought to the site from the…

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