Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir

The construction of reservoirs on Rivington Pike was the first major attempt by Liverpool Corporation Waterworks to obtain water from outside of the city of Liverpool. The Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. cclxi) authorised the construction of reservoirs at Anglezarke, Upper Rivington and Lower Rivington on the western edge of the 10000 acre of moorland which comprises Rivington Pike. The reservoirs were used to hold water for the supply of drinking water, and were linked to two further reservoirs on the northern edge of the moors at Rake Brook and Lower Roddlesworth by an open channel, 3.75 mi long, called The Goit. These were used to supply compensation water, to…