Lower Laithe Reservoir

Lower Laithe Reservoir is a man-made upland reservoir that lies 1.2 miles west of , , England. The reservoir was initially approved under the Keighley Waterworks Extension and Improvement Act 1869. but work did not begin on its construction until 1911 and even then was delayed because of the First World War.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Waterfall.

Museum
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The is a writer's house museum maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in , , England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.

Waterfall
Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
on the South Dean Beck is about a mile south-west of , near in , England. Beck is a dialect word for a stream.

Reservoir
is an artificial upland lake in the Worth Valley, near , , England. Ponden was built as a compensation reservoir after the nearby was used to divert water away from the River Worth.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haworth and Brontë Country.

Photo: Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0.
is a village of 6,700 people in the county of in the north of England, about 7.5 km away from . It's famous as the place where the Brontë sisters grew up and wrote their novels, and all too soon died.

Photo: SpaceMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
includes locations associated with the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Anne and Emily. They're centred on the small town of Haworth in West Yorkshire, but cover a broad stretch of country.

Village
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is a village and civil parish near in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, , England. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Lower Laithe Reservoir

Latitude
53.8275° or 53° 49′ 39″ north
Longitude
-1.9857° or 1° 59′ 9″ west
Open location code
9C5WR2G7+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4021474
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­reservoir
Wiki­data ID
Q28404048
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St Gabriel’s Church and Stanbury Village School.

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