Angram Reservoir is the first of three reservoirs on the

River Nidd The River Nidd is a tributary of the River Ouse in the English county of North Yorkshire. In its first few miles it is dammed three times to create Angram Reservoir, Scar House Reservoir and Gouthwaite Reservoir, which attract a total of aroun ...

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, the others being

Scar House Reservoir Scar House Reservoir is the second of the three reservoirs in Upper Nidderdale, England, the others being Angram Reservoir and Gouthwaite Reservoir. Between them they attract around 150,000 visitors a year. Angram and Scar House were built to ...

and finally the compensation reservoir

Gouthwaite Reservoir Gouthwaite Reservoir is a reservoir in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England. It is one of many in the area, others include Roundhill Reservoir and Angram Reservoir. Gouthwaite's sole purpose is a compensation reservoir for the River Nidd, i.e. ...

. It is located at OS map reference . Between them they attract around 150,000 visitors a year. The reservoir takes its name from Angram, a settlement in the township of Stonebeck Up, submerged when the reservoir was completed in 1919. Little Whernside () to the north and

Great Whernside Great Whernside is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, England, not to be confused with Whernside, some to the west. Its summit is the highest point of the eastern flank of Wharfedale above Kettlewell. Great Whernside forms the watershed between Wh ...

() to the west of the reservoir are close by. The

flows for approximately from the flanks of Great Whernside before joining the reservoir.

History

The reservoir was built to supply water to the

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

area of

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. It was built by Bradford Corporation between 1904 and 1919, under an Act of Parliament in 1890 which also authorised the corporation to construct three other reservoirs in upper Nidderdale. Haden Carr reservoir was first built in the 1890s, just below Angram, and the works included the

Nidd Aqueduct The Nidd Aqueduct is an aqueduct or man-made watercourse in North Yorkshire, England. It feeds water from Angram and Scar House reservoirs in upper Nidderdale, North Yorkshire to Bradford in West Yorkshire. The aqueduct supplies of water ...

, by which water was transferred from Haden Carr to Chellow Heights via the

using gravity only and no pumping. A small village was constructed at Angram site to house workers. The dam was faced with stone, which came from a quarry on the south side of the dale above Scar House, two miles down the dale. Two bypass channels on each side of the reservoir were used to bypass the reservoir and maintain the level of the

. Once

was constructed, these become obsolete, but control machinery can still be seen on the Nidd and Stone beck inlets.

Facilities

There is a shelter near the dam, but no other facilities. Near the dam of Scar House Reservoir, from the dam of Angram Reservoir, there is a car park, picnic areas and toilets. There is a permissive footpath across the dam and around the reservoir. Fishing is not permitted at the reservoir.

References

External links

Nidderdale AONB website

Yorkshire Water Recreation Page
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