Anglezarke
Anglezarke is a sparsely populated civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is an agricultural area used for sheep farming and is also the site of reservoirs that were built to supply water to Liverpool.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Yarrow Reservoir and Anglezarke Reservoir.
Yarrow Reservoir
Reservoir
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Yarrow Reservoir – named after the River Yarrow – is a reservoir in the Rivington chain in Anglezarke, Lancashire, England, and has a storage capacity second to Anglezarke Reservoir.
Anglezarke Reservoir
Reservoir
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Anglezarke Reservoir is the largest reservoir in the Rivington chain to the west of Anglezarke in Lancashire, England. Anglezarke Reservoir 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 Heapey Embankment is 280 feet long and 32 feet high.
High Bullough Reservoir
Reservoir
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High Bullough Reservoir is the oldest of all the reservoirs in the Rivington chain, having been authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1846 and completed in 1850.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chorley and Horwich.
Chorley
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Chorley is a town in Lancashire, England, in the West Pennine Moors. Chorley describes itself as "Lancashire's Market Town". The markets take place most days, and continue to attract shoppers from around the local area.
Horwich
Town
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Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester in the North-West of England, 17 miles north of Manchester city centre. It celebrates its industrial heritage of canals, coal, cotton, and railways. Horwich is situated 4 miles south of Anglezarke.
Belmont
Village
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Belmont is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of North Turton, in the unitary authority area of Blackburn with Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is close to Darwen and has around 500 inhabitants. Belmont is situated 2½ miles east of Anglezarke.
Anglezarke
- Type: Locality with 33 residents
- Description: civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Chorley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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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