Healey Nab
Healey Nab or "The Nab" is an area of countryside owned partly by Lancashire County Council containing rolling hills, moorland, woodland, ponds and streams to the east of Chorley, Lancashire, between the M61 and the West Pennine Moors.Photo: Karl1587, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anglezarke Reservoir and High Bullough Reservoir.
Anglezarke Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 the Chorley Waterworks Act 1846 and completed in 1850.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chorley and Astley Village.
Chorley
Photo: jim walton, CC BY 3.0.
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.
Astley Village
Hamlet
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Astley Village is a civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, covering a suburb of Chorley. According to the 2011 census, its population was 3,005. Astley Village is situated 2 miles west of Healey Nab.
Healey Nab
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 682 feet
- Description: 208m high hill in Lancashire, England, UK
- Category: landform
- Location: Chorley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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