Warley Moor Reservoir

Reservoir in West Yorkshire

53°46′57″N 1°57′22″W / 53.7824°N 1.9560°W / 53.7824; -1.9560TypeReservoirBasin countriesEnglandManaging agencyYorkshire WaterBuilt1872 (1872)Surface area68 acres (28 ha)Average depth45 feet (14 m)Water volume193 million imperial gallons (880 ML; 710 acre⋅ft)

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 holds 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]

The reservoir is used by Halifax Sailing Club. It is also famous for being the reservoir Tommy Lee Royce cycled to in Series 3 of the BBC show Happy Valley.

References

^ "Text of Byelaws made and approved by Board of Yorkshire Water" (PDF). Yorkshire Water. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bull, Malcolm. "Calderdale Companion: Warley Moor Reservoir". Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
^ "Luddenden". Countryfile. 21 April 2013. BBC. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.