Anglezarke Reservoir

Anglezarke Reservoir
The Anglezarke Reservoir
Location: Lancashire , England Tributaries: River Yarrow , The Goit Drain: River Yarrow → River Douglas → River Ribble → Irish Sea Larger places nearby: Chorley
England , UK
Coordinates	53 ° 38 '55 "  N , 2 ° 35' 7"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '55 "  N , 2 ° 35' 7"  W.
Data on the structure
Construction time:	1850-1857
The Anglezarke Reservoir

The Anglezarke Reservoir is a reservoir in Lancashire , England . The reservoir lies east of Chorley and is the northernmost of a six kilometer chain of three reservoirs. In the south, the Upper Rivington Reservoir and the Lower Rivington Reservoir connect . The reservoirs of the High Bullough Reservoir to the east of the Anglezarke Reservoir and the Yarrow Reservoir also belong to the network .

The reservoir was built by Thomas Hawksley between 1850 and 1857 to supply water to the city of Liverpool . A 27.35 km long pipeline runs from the reservoir to Prescot near Liverpool.

The River Yarrow is the main tributary of the reservoir on its southeast side. A canal called The Goit leads the reservoir on its north side over 6.4 km of water from the Rake Brook Reservoir . The reservoir has an average water depth of 5.8 m.

Web links

Commons : Anglezarke Reservoir  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rivington Reservoirs on Pastscape of Historic England

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rivington Reservoirs (main scheme) on Engineering Timeline, accessed October 22, 2016