Anglezarke

Anglezarke is a sparsely populated civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in , England. It is an agricultural area used for sheep farming and is also the site of reservoirs that were built to supply water to .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Yarrow Reservoir and Anglezarke Reservoir.

Reservoir
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– named after the River Yarrow – is a reservoir in the chain in Anglezarke, , , and has a storage capacity second to .

Reservoir
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is the largest in the chain to the west of Anglezarke in , England. has three embankments: the Charnock Embankment, the longest, is 850 yards long and 31 feet high, the Knowsley Embankment is 240 yards long and 45 feet high and the Embankment is 280 feet long and 32 feet high.

Reservoir
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is the oldest of all the in the chain, having been authorised by the Chorley Waterworks Act 1846 and completed in 1850.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chorley and Adlington.

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is a town in , , in the West Pennine Moors. describes itself as "Lancashire's Market Town". The markets take place most days, and continue to attract shoppers from around the local area.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in , England, near the . It is 3 miles south of . It became a separate parish in 1842 then grew into a township around the textile and coal mining industries until these closed in the 1960s. is situated 3 miles southwest of Anglezarke.

Town
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Bolton is a large town in in northwest England, 17 miles north of Manchester city centre, with an industrial heritage of canals, coal, cotton and railways. is situated 4 miles south of Anglezarke.

Anglezarke

Latitude
53.6513° or 53° 39′ 5″ north
Longitude
-2.555° or 2° 33′ 18″ west
Population
33
Elevation
909 feet (277 metres)
Open location code
9C5VMC2V+GX
Geo­Names ID
7293817
Wiki­data ID
Q2556185
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Anglezarke” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Англезарке”
  • Cebuano: “Anglezarke”
  • Chinese: “安格尔扎克”
  • Dutch: “Anglezarke”
  • French: “Anglezarke”
  • Irish: “Anglezarke”
  • Japanese: “エングリザーク”
  • Polish: “Anglezarke”
  • Swedish: “Anglezarke”
  • Turkish: “Anglezarke”
  • “Anglezarke”

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