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Rake Brook Reservoir
Rake Brook Reservoir was constructed along with nearby Lower Roddlesworth Reservoir in the 1850s by Liverpool Water Works and is now part of United Utilities Roddlesworth Reservoirs.
There is good public access on the tarmac road beside the North shore of Rake Brook Reservoir with walking paths leading off around to Lower Roddlesworth but access is not easy on the other sides, the main road intersecting the reservoir at its southernmost point.
Although Rake Brook Reservoir is part of the chain of three reservoirs following the old course of the River Roddlesworth; as the name hints, Rake Brook Reservoir also takes in water from Rake Brook which rises on Cold Within Hill to the West.
Local History
Historic monuments near Rake Brook Reservoir
- Pleasington alum works – 6.19 km away
- Part of Witton Old Hall medieval lordly residence 340m north east of Feniscliffe Bridge – 5.40 km away
- Roman signal station on Mellor Moor – 9.17 km away
- Pike Stones chambered long cairn – 5.32 km away
- Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds – 8.20 km away
- Headless Cross, Grimeford – 9.57 km away
- Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 4.09 km away
- Round cairn on Noon Hill – 7.20 km away
- Round cairn on Winter Hill – 7.24 km away
- Steam tramway reversing triangle – 5.38 km away
- Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm – 9.93 km away