Warley Moor Reservoir

Warley Moor Reservoir
Fly Flatts Reservoir
Coordinates 53°46′57″N 1°57′22″W / 53.7824°N 1.9560°W / 53.7824; -1.9560Coordinates: 53°46′57″N 1°57′22″W / 53.7824°N 1.9560°W / 53.7824; -1.9560
Type Reservoir
Basin countries England
Managing agency Yorkshire Water
Built 1872 (1872)
Surface area 68 acres (28 ha)
Average depth 45 feet (14 m)
Water volume 193,000,000 imperial gallons (880,000,000 L)

Warley Moor Reservoir, also known as Fly Flatts Reservoir, is a drinking water reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, owned and operated by Yorkshire Water.[1]

Completed in 1872, the reservoir was built by the engineer John Frederick La Trobe Bateman.[2] The first sod was cut on 20 May 1864, by the then Mayor of Halifax, William Holdsworth, who used a silver spade with the inscription:[2]

Halifax Corporation – The first sod of the Warley Moor Reservoir was turned with this spade, on Friday, the 20th May, 1864, by William Irving Holdsworth, Esq., Mayor of Halifax; J. F. Bateman, Engineer; John Parkinson and Joseph Mann, contractors; J. E. Norris, Town Clerk

The reservoir covers 68 acres (28 ha), is 45 feet (14 m) deep when full and hods up to 193,000,000 imperial gallons (880,000,000 L).[2] It was notably described in Whiteley Turner's 1913 book A Spring-Time Saunter: Round and About Bronte Land.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Text of Byelaws made and approved by Board of Yorkshire Water" (PDF). Yorkshire Water. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Bull, Malcolm. "Calderdale Companion: Warley Moor Reservoir". Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Luddenden". Countryfile. 21 April 2013. BBC. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
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