Waskerley Reservoir is the largest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Smiddy Shaw and

Hisehope Reservoir Hisehope Reservoir is the smallest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Smiddy Shaw Reservoirs. The reservoir was completed 1906, and is owned and operated by Northumbria ...

s. The

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, which was constructed in 1877, is owned and operated by

Northumbrian Water Northumbrian Water Limited is a water company in the United Kingdom, providing mains water and sewerage services in the English counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham and parts of North Yorkshire, and also supplying water as Essex and ...

.Waskerley, Smiddyshaw, Hisehope (pdf downloadable at ) It and Smiddy Shaw—which in turn is fed by Hisehope—feed water under gravity to a water treatment works at Honey Hill.) Because the three reservoirs cannot meet the full demand of Honey Hill, Waskerley can be replenished by a gravity feed from

Burnhope Reservoir Burnhope Reservoir ( ) is a reservoir above the village of Wearhead, County Durham, England. The reservoir was created by the construction of an earth embankment dam across the valley of Burnhope Burn, a tributary of the River Wear, above W ...

or, if necessary, by pumping water from the Tyne-Tees Tunnel via an

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. Waskerley and its two neighbouring reservoirs are located within the

Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham and Northumberland, England. It consists of two separate areas, the larger—encompassing the upland areas of Mugglesw ...

Site of Special Scientific Interest, which itself forms part of the

North Pennines The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England. It lies between Carlisle to the west and Darlington to the east. It is bounded to the north by the Tyne Valley and ...

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; , AHNE) is an area of countryside in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value. Areas are designated in recognition of ...

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Drinking water reservoirs in England Reservoirs in County Durham {{Durham-geo-stub

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