Midhope Reservoir

The reservoir covers an area of 20 ha with an average depth of 9 m and typically stores 1,765,675 m3 of water. It has a catchment area of 443 ha, lies at a height of 245 m above sea level, and when is at water capacity level, covers 206,000 m2. The catchment area consists largely of forested land overlain on millstone grit and coal measures. When the water levels are low, the east bank of the reservoir reveals a strata of rock including sandstone, grey shale, blue shale, clay with iron nodules and black shale. Plans were lodged with Westminster for Parliamentary approval in late 1894 with the scheme estimated to cost £170,000 () and the reservoir was entitled as Hagg Brook, wholly in the…