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. It rises in Nidderdale at Nidd Head Spring on the slopes of Great Whernside. In its first few miles it has been dammed three times, creating Angram Rese ...

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, the others being

Scar House Reservoir Scar House Reservoir is the second of the three reservoirs in Nidderdale, Upper Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England, the others are Angram Reservoir and Gouthwaite Reservoir. Between them they attract around 150,000 visitors a year. Angram an ...

and finally the compensation reservoir

Gouthwaite Reservoir Gouthwaite Reservoir is in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England. It is one of many reservoirs in the area, others include Roundhill Reservoir and Angram Reservoir. Gouthwaite is a compensation reservoir for the River Nidd, i.e. it maintains t ...

. 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 W ...

() 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

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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 (water supply), aqueduct or man-made watercourse in North Yorkshire, England. It feeds water from Angram Reservoir, Angram and Scar House Reservoir, Scar House reservoirs in upper Nidderdale, North Yorkshire ...

, 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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