Morley service reservoir
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Morley service reservoir
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 11 Jan 2020
Also known as Victoria reservoir, this is a large covered water storage reservoir at roughly the highest point of the town. Originally this was supplied directly from the impounding reservoir at Withens Clough near Hebden Bridge, along a 15" main ("designed by engineer Charles Gott to make use of the difference in altitude, with Withens at 1000ft to Morley's 400ft, to send up to 1.5 million gallons of water a day along a twenty one mile pipe to Morley") with treatment restricted to liming for pH correction. Nowadays the water is, as far I can recall from my work with Yorkshire Water in the 1990s, treated at the Fixby works above Elland before being forwarded to Morley and other service reservoirs. See also Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.739407
Longitude
-1.618671