The Audenshaw Reservoirs were constructed between 1877 and 1882 by

Manchester Corporation Manchester City Council is the local authority for Manchester, a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester is the sixth largest city in England by population. Its city council is composed of 96 councillors, three f ...

. They are located between

Audenshaw Audenshaw is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, east of Manchester. Historically part of Lancashire, in 2011 it had a population of 11,419. The name derives from Aldwin, a Saxon personal name, and the Old English suffix ...

and Denton, in

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, England. Their construction was overseen by

John Frederick Bateman John Frederick La Trobe Bateman (30 May 1810 – 10 June 1889) was an English civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry. For more than 50 years from 1835 he designed and constructed reser ...

. Part of the village of Audenshaw was demolished to make way for the three reservoirs. Also destroyed to allow their construction was a section of

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The three reservoirs – Audenshaw No.1, Audenshaw No. 2, and Audenshaw No. 3 – originally covered an area of , and had a total capacity of .Quayle, p. 8. Reservoir number 3 was partly filled in during the 1990s, to make way for the M60 (formerly the M66) motorway. The reservoirs are currently maintained by United Utilities plc and are not open to the general public. However, it is possible to obtain a permit to visit the reservoirs for leisure use. More recently, the reservoirs have been fenced off to the public, in preparation for the creation of a

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on the water.

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Tameside Unitary Development PlanAudenshaw Local History Society (Currently no mention of the reservoir)
Tameside Drinking water reservoirs in England Works by John Frederick Bateman Reservoirs in Greater Manchester Audenshaw {{GreaterManchester-geo-stub

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