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The reservoir's existence is due to the Entwistle Dam. When constructed in 1832 the Entwistle Dam was the highest in Britain; it rises 108 feet from the base. [ 1 ] The reservoir contains almost 750 thousand imperial gallons (roughly 3,400,000 litres) and, with the Wayoh Reservoir just below, satisfies around 50% of Bolton 's need for drinking ...
Edgworth is renowned to walkers as it is very picturesque. Two large reservoirs, the Wayoh Reservoir, and the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, are located north-east of the village, and the Jumbles Reservoir is near Turton Bottoms. They supply water to the Bolton area. [9] [10]
Bradshaw Brook is a river draining parts of Lancashire and Greater Manchester in Northern England.. Starting life as Cadshaw Brook draining a valley named Green Lowe Clough on Turton Moor, the brook feeds the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir and Wayoh Reservoir (the latter also fed by Blackstone Brook and Whittlestone Head Brook).
The name was recorded as Hennetwisel in 1212, Ennetwysel in 1276 and Entwissell in 1311. Entwistle is situated in a fork between the Edgeworth Brook and a smaller tributary. [1] [2] Entwistle was originally a township in the chapelry of Turton which was part of the large ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the hundred of Salford. [3]
The Wayoh reservoir, viewed from the Edgworth side with the Entwistle viaduct in the background. The West Pennine Moors is an area of the Pennines covering approximately 90 square miles (230 km 2) of moorland and reservoirs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England. [1] It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. [2]
A very tall platform was erected at Lake Monroe a few years back in hopes of making a nesting area that would appeal to the ospreys. Carol Kugler wrote about it in The Herald-Times in 2020 .
Yarnsdale is a dale or valley in Lancashire.The name is derived from the heron or hern. [1]It contains a small sandstone quarry, also known as Cadshaw Quarry at grid reference 706.178, situated to the north west of Turton and Entwistle Reservoir in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen.
South Turton, an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester; Turton and Edgworth railway station, formerly on what is now the Northern Rail 'Ribble Valley Line; Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, a water reservoir in the town of Edgworth, Lancashire; Turton Tower, Chapeltown, Lancashire, a 15th-century manor house