Ponden Reservoir

Ponden 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brontë Waterfall and Keighley Moor Reservoir.

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
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is a freshwater reservoir west of , in , England. Although it was originally built to keep a constant supply of water to downstream mills, it is now used for freshwater supply within the and areas, with water overflowing the reservoir running via North Beck into the River Worth in Keighley.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brontë Country and Haworth.

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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.

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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.

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.

Ponden Reservoir

Latitude
53.8313° or 53° 49′ 53″ north
Longitude
-2.0147° or 2° 0′ 53″ west
Open location code
9C5VRXJP+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4021475
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­reservoir
Wiki­data ID
Q98959115
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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ponden Hall and Scar Top Chapel.

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