Ponden Reservoir
Ponden Reservoir is an artificial upland lake in the Worth Valley, near Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England. Ponden was built as a compensation reservoir after the nearby Watersheddles Reservoir was used to divert water away from the River Worth.Places of Interest
Highlights include Brontë Waterfall and Lower Laithe Reservoir.
Brontë Waterfall
Waterfall
Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brontë Waterfall on the South Dean Beck is about a mile south-west of Stanbury, near Haworth in West Yorkshire, England. Beck is a dialect word for a stream.
Lower Laithe Reservoir
Reservoir
Lower Laithe Reservoir is a man-made upland reservoir that lies 1.2 miles west of Haworth, West Yorkshire, 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brontë Country and Haworth.
Brontë Country
Photo: SpaceMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brontë Country 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.
Haworth
Photo: Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0.
Haworth is a village of 6,700 people in the county of West Yorkshire in the north of England, about 7.5 km away from Bradford. It's famous as the place where the Brontë sisters grew up and wrote their novels, and all too soon died.
Oxenhope
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oxenhope is a village and civil parish near Keighley in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Ponden Reservoir
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: Keighley, Bradford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.8313° or 53° 49′ 53″ northLongitude
-2.0147° or 2° 0′ 53″ westOpen location code
9C5VRXJP+G4OpenStreetMap ID
way 4021475OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirWikidata ID
Q98959115
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