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Nov 2023
10:18pm, 10 Nov 2023
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paulcook
I was impressed enough by the architecture on your photo.
But ...
"Angram and Scar House were built to supply water to the Bradford area of West Yorkshire. Water from here is transferred to Chellow Heights via the Nidd Aqueduct using only gravity and no pumping."
What?!
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Nov 2023
10:21pm, 10 Nov 2023
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Derby Tup
It's all downhill to Bratfoot 
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Nov 2023
10:23pm, 10 Nov 2023
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paulcook
I hadn't thought of that bit! Chellow Heights ain't.
However it gets there, what a wonderful feat of engineering.
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Nov 2023
10:28pm, 10 Nov 2023
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Derby Tup
The Victorians were amazing engineers. There are reservoirs, conduits, culverts, aqueducts etc all west of Bradford
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Nov 2023
10:29pm, 10 Nov 2023
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Meglet
Scar House was also going to be my next guess. Still not been up there yet despite having cycled to How Stean Gorge several times.
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Nov 2023
10:36pm, 10 Nov 2023
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paulcook
I visited Lake Vyrnwy a couple of years ago and was captivated by something so massive and seemingly so far from Liverpool was built to supply water there. I guess we just take it for granted that clean water comes out of our taps when the Victorians were responsible for so much of it.
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Nov 2023
10:38pm, 10 Nov 2023
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Derby Tup
Elan Valley series of ressers are stunning
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Nov 2023
11:27pm, 10 Nov 2023
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swittle
I visited Lake Vyrnwy a couple of years ago and was captivated by something so massive and seemingly so far from Liverpool was built to supply water there. I guess we just take it for granted that clean water comes out of our taps when the Victorians were responsible for so much of it.
Ran the half Marathon there several times in the distant past. Turning at 6+ miles and taking the 'homeward' bank gives an idea of the sheer size.
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Nov 2023
7:34am, 11 Nov 2023
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Meglet
I did the LV HM one year. It was pouring with rain so quite difficult to appreciate the beauty!
Also have memories of driving through the Elan Valley as a child, the roads high up along the sides felt quite precarious. Would they have been to supply Birmingham?
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Nov 2023
7:36am, 11 Nov 2023
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Derby Tup
Elan Valley was for Birmingham yes. I had a weekend there flyfishing with a friend back in the 90's. The dams might be man made but it's a stunning wild environment and the trout not large but highly memorable
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