Walshaw Dean Reservoir Circle

Date visited: 5th October 2024

A ‘lost’ circle thought to have been destroyed when the Victorians built the reservoirs, the engineers actually took the first photo of it in 1902 and it’s always been just below the surface.

Best visited in late summer for obvious reasons, you wont see it otherwise.

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_003 The circle is just by the dam of the middle reservoir ## 53.798474, -2.055182

Ordnance Survey Pin

OS Grid Ref: SD 96462 33575
Latitude: 53°47'55"N
Longitude: 2°3'19"W

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_002 P for scale. The middle stone from the 1902 photo below is missing

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_old_photo From The Modern Antiquarian (see link below)

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_001 A circle overlay showing the original stone circle perimeter

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_004 Bonus concrete infrastructure photo