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 its 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.jpg: The circle is just by the dam of the middle reservoir (14kB) - view original 355kB

53.798474, -2.055182

OS Grid Ref: SD 96462 33575
Latitude: 53°4755N
Longitude: 2°319W

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_002.jpg: P for scale. The middle stone from the 1902 photo below is missing (17kB) - view original 334kB

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_old_photo.jpg: From The Modern Antiquarian (see link below) (26kB) - view original 185kB

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_001.jpg: A circle overlay showing the original stone circle perimeter (26kB) - view original 773kB

Links

• megalithic.co.uk

• (https://megalithix.wordpress.com/ "The Northern Antiquarian")

20241005_walshaw_dean_reservoir_circle_004.jpg: Bonus concrete infrastructure photo (8kB) - view original 258kB