March Haigh Reservoir

March Haigh Reservoir is a reservoir in Ripponden, Calderdale, England. March Haigh Reservoir is situated near the locality March Haigh Flat, as well as near Stack End.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Standedge and Marsden railway station.

Standedge

Peak

Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Standedge is a moorland escarpment in the Pennine Hills of northern England between Marsden, West Yorkshire and Diggle, Greater Manchester. Standedge has been a major moorland crossing point since Roman times and possibly earlier.

Marsden railway station

Railway station

Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Marsden railway station serves the village of Marsden near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Huddersfield Line, operated by Northern and is about 7 miles west of Huddersfield station.

Deanhead Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Deanhead Reservoir is a reservoir near Scammonden, in the metropolitan district of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is named after Dean Head, a village that was mostly submerged during construction of the dam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marsden and Denshaw.

Marsden

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.

Marsden is a large village in the Colne Valley, in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the South Pennines close to the Peak District which lies to the south.

Denshaw

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Denshaw is a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies by the source of the River Tame, high amongst the Pennines above the village of Delph, 4.6 miles northeast of Oldham, 3.3 miles north-northwest of Uppermill and Shaw and Crompton.

Castleshaw

Hamlet

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Castleshaw is a hamlet in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines, 2.4 miles north of Uppermill, 3 miles west-southwest of Marsden, and 5.3 miles east-northeast of Oldham.

March Haigh Reservoir

Type: Reservoir
Description: reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK
Category: body of water
Location: Ripponden, Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.6131° or 53° 36′ 47″ north

Longitude

-1.9783° or 1° 58′ 42″ west

Open location code

9C5WJ27C+6M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 30830336

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=reservoir

Wikidata ID

Q131185640

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: March Haigh Flat and Stack End.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: March Hill and Stotley Moss.

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Worth a closer look: London and Manchester.

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