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Fly Flatts,
Halifax: OK, so this is where we go windsurfing on a Victorian man-made
reservoir - but it is 400 metres above sea level, you can see Lancashire and the
canals across the moors feed the reservoirs and must have taken thousands of
man-hours to construct. Then there is the hidden house in the valley - used to
store munitions in WW2 and destroyed as a result. Now the gardens, full of Rhododendrons
are used as a Pheasant breeding farm.
Basically they built a wall on the hillside to
capture the water
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Much later they built a wind farm behind the
reservoir
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Stoodley
Pike is a war memorial which overlooks Todmorden near the Lancashire
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Sunset from the Windsurfers rigging area
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The enormous network of canals are straddled by
stone bridges to allow people and sheep to cross
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At
the top of the reservoir is a principle canal which carries the majority
of the water from the surrounding moors
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Flatts Reservoir is the highest of a series which, are constructed down
the valleys and acts as a kind of header tank to maintain the levels in
the others. Following this line of reservoirs and about 1 mile away is a
hidden house, as mentioned above, which seems to have benefited from some
more decorative input from the Victorian engineers. |
The monkey tree seems to have flourished despite
the very harsh conditions at this height
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The
entrance seems to have supported a portcullis
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All that remains above ground level apart from
rubble
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When you examine the stone work on the ground you
can begin to imagine the teams of workers and craftsmen that must have
been involved
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Coat of arms - but who's.
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The cellars were clearly extensive
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This is a big file, but the view is outstanding over to Lancashire |
This was taken following weeks without rain, but
imagine the cascade normally
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The whole water feature is served by a water
ladder in the distance
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View of the Tower from the other side of the
valley
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Commemorative plaque with the sponsors names in
stone...
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Rhododendrons on the Yorkshire moors are a sure
sign that there was a Victorian settlement somewhere close
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