Worthington Lakes is a series of three reservoirs in the north of the borough of

Wigan Wigan ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, Lancashire, River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. Bolton lies to the nor ...

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority, combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: City of Manchester, Manchester, City of Salford, Salford ...

(from south to north: Worthington, Arley and Adlington) close to nearby Standish, off the A5106

Chorley Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came pr ...

road in the north-west of England. They were constructed in the early 1860s to provide the clean water required by the rapidly growing town of Wigan. Despite being situated in the Douglas Valley the water supply comes from the Parbold hills to the west as River Douglas was considered too polluted to be used for drinking water. The lakes, which are now in the ownership of

United Utilities United Utilities Group plc (UU), the United Kingdom's largest listed water company, was founded in 1995 as a result of the merger of North West Water and NORWEB. The group manages the regulated water and waste water network in North West Englan ...

are today part of a country park, with a nature reserve and accessible footpaths and used for informal recreation and for angling. A transcript of the public information notice board provided by United Utilities reads:

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Wigan Council- Green Heart
{{authority control Reservoirs in Greater Manchester