Lower Roddlesworth Reservoir is a

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

on the River Roddlesworth close to Abbey Village in

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, England. The reservoir is close to

Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir is a reservoir on the River Roddlesworth near Abbey Village in Lancashire, England. The reservoir is close to Lower Roddlesworth Reservoir and Rake Brook Reservoir and sits within dense woodland. History The con ...

and Rake Brook Reservoir, situated within thick forest. It was constructed in the 1850s by Thomas Hawksley for Liverpool Corporation Waterworks, and together with Rake Brook, was designed to hold compensation water to maintain flows in the rivers, whereas the reservoirs at Lower Rivington, Upper Rivington and

Anglezarke Anglezarke is a sparsely populated civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is an agricultural area used for sheep farming, also site of reservoirs that were built to supply water to Liverpool. The area has a large expanse ...

held water for the public water supply. Water from the two compensation reservoirs was fed into Anglezarke reservoir by a channel called

The Goit The Goit (sometimes written ''The Goyt'') (see Oxford English Dictionary - Gote - a watercourse; any channel for water; a stream. Chiefly northern dialect.) is a canal used for transporting drinking water along the Rivington chain in Lancashire, ...

. An Act of Parliament to authorise its construction was obtained in 1847, and Hawksley designed an earth dam which was tall at its highest point and long. It impounded of water when full. The reservoir was completed in 1857.

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