Swineshaw Reservoir (Derbyshire)

Swineshaw Reservoir and Upper Swineshaw Reservoir

(November 2008)
Location North Derbyshire, England
Coordinates 53°27′22″N 1°56′15″W / 53.45600°N 1.93749°W / 53.45600; -1.93749Coordinates: 53°27′22″N 1°56′15″W / 53.45600°N 1.93749°W / 53.45600; -1.93749
Type impounding reservoir
Basin countries United Kingdom

For the reservoirs near Stalybridge, in Tameside, Greater Manchester known as Higher Swineshaw Reservoir and Lower Swineshaw Reservoir see Reservoirs in Greater Manchester

Swineshaw Reservoir is a reservoir near Glossop, north Derbyshire. In 1837, 50 local millowners and gentlemen, known as the "Glossop Commissioners", obtained an Act of Parliament to construct the Glossop Reservoirs. Hurst Reservoir was on the Hurst Brook and Mossy Lea Reservoir was to take water from the Shelf Brook. Only the Hurst reservoir was constructed before the money ran out. Mossy Lea Reservoir was constructed privately by the Duke of Norfolk. Swineshaw, on Swineshaw Clough, was adopted in 1864 by the Glossop Water Company to provide drinking water for Glossop. It was taken over in 1929 by the Glossop Corporation Waterworks. This became part of the Manchester Corporation Waterworks in 1959. Swineshaw, Hurst Reservoir and Mossy Lea Reservoir are no longer in service.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Quayle, Tom (2006). The Cotton Industry in Longdendale and Glossopdale. Stroud,Gloucestershire: Tempus. p. 64.


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