Walshaw Dean Reservoirs
Walshaw Dean Reservoirs are three reservoirs above Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. They are between Hebden Bridge and Top Withins, a ruined farmhouse near Haworth, the reputed inspiration for "Wuthering Heights" in the novel of the same name by Emily Brontë.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kevin Rushton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoirs in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Walshaw Dean Middle Reservoir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Top Withens and Brontë Waterfall.
Top Withens
Ruins
Photo: Dave.Dunford, Public domain.
Top Withens is a ruined farmhouse near Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, notable for its association with Wuthering Heights. It occupies a remote and exposed position on Haworth Moor, 1,377 feet above sea level.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heptonstall and Scar Top.
Heptonstall
Village
Photo: Owen30, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hebden Bridge is an old mill town in West Yorkshire. It is set in the deep cleft of a heavily wooded steep-sided valley, with a river, Hebden Water, running through it, crossed by the packhorse bridge that gives the town its name.
Scar Top
Hamlet
Stanbury
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Stanbury is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Haworth and Stanbury, in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.
Walshaw Dean Reservoirs
- Categories: group of lakes and body of water
- Location: Wadsworth, Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.8002° or 53° 48′ 1″ northLongitude
-2.052° or 2° 3′ 7″ westOperator
Yorkshire WaterOpen location code
9C5VRW2X+36OpenStreetMap ID
way 4685613OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirWikidata ID
Q7963848
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In Other Languages
“Walshaw Dean Reservoirs” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Walshaw Dean Reservoirs”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Blake Dean and Walshaw and Lancashire Moor.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Walshaw Dean Higher Reservoir and Walshaw Dean Lower Reservoir.
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