Scar house reservoir

Since the government guidelines have change we’ve been working hard to devise a plan to keep everyone safe while enjoying our beautiful reservoirs. We’ve reopened the car parks at this reservoir so visitors can walk around them as long as social distancing rules are observed. To help direct visitors, we’ve installed some new signs that are there for everyone to follow so please take a moment to read them.

Muddy and slippery at times, so it needs good boots together with wind and waterproof clothing. Scar House Reservoir.

Between them they attract around 150visitors a year. It runs for nearly miles and is fairly flat so will suit most abilities. Water is transferred via the Nidd aqueduct, which is a major engineering achievement as it transports water without pumping. The back of beyond.

Gadie, who cut the first sod. It took years to complete. For walkers it can be extended with a further loop of rough yomping around Angram Reservoir to the remote top of Nidderdale under the shadow of Great Whernside, a peak of 704m which separates Nidderdale and Wharfedale.

Nidderdale is just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park but has the accolade of being an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

It has moorland vistas and is a lush green valley. Water from here is transferred to Chellow Heights via the Nidd Aqueduct using only gravity and no pumping. Place type: Inland Water. District: Harrogate. Today they are well known for their peace and solitude, however that hasn’t always been the case.

A GPS File is available for download (see walk description). Please maintain social distancing - keep at least metres away from other walkers. Shortly after the shelter (half way along the reservoir ) turn right up the hillside. At the top turn left and follow the track onwards to Angram Dam.

It was a warm day with the UK enjoying a mini heatwave. However the only place not enjoying the highest temperatures seemed to be the Vale of York and the Harrogate area with a warm easterly breeze bringing cloud off the north sea for some distance inland. Head out of the car park and turn left down the hill towards the dam. In the calendar below where you can see stars indicates when the skies will be dark and the best time to stargaze. In an early form of social engineering, workers and their families were accommodated in a purpose-built village on the site, the remains of which are still visible.

Show off your images, experiences and read the RSPB’s blogs! Measuring 8feet (5metres) long and 1feet (metres) high, the reservoir was constructed to supply Bradford’s booming mills, along with Angram Reservoir, which is a short distance up the River Nidd.

I’d heard of this water but not really done much research until Stu suggested we pay it a visit over the bank holiday at which point I had a quick peek on the map. An all weather classic with barely any tarmac. Starting at the head of Nidderdale this classic tour takes you up onto stony tracks high above the valley, before dropping down a rubble slope to Bouthwaite. Enjoy the stunning scenery and natural wilderness of this special area as you paddle your canoe and attempt to stay dry!

Park on the road opposite the hotel. Access to Angram Reservoir is via the water company road between Lofthouse and Middlesmoor. Yorkshire Water-owned reservoir near the village of Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire.

Good for wildfowl in winter an if the water level is low, passage waders. Tripadvisor among attractions in Pateley Bridge. Today the reservoir still supplies water to industrial West Yorkshire, but it is also used for recreation. It was hard and dangerous work with over million tonnes of masonry to transport and build and one man was killed during the construction.

Yet of an equally impressive nature is the story behind the structure, a major feat of engineering that took.