Deanhead Reservoir

Deanhead Reservoir
Deanhead Reservoir
Location	Kirklees, West Yorkshire
Coordinates	53°37′58″N1°56′39″W / 53.63278°N 1.94417°W / 53.63278; -1.94417
Lake type	reservoir
Basin  countries	United Kingdom
Surface area	6.7 hectares (17 acres) [1]
Surface elevation	988 feet (301 m)

Deanhead Reservoir Act 1838
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for making and maintaining a Reservoir at Deanhead in the Parish of Huddersfield in the West Riding of the County of York, and for other Purposes relating thereto.
Citation	1 & 2 Vict. c. lxiv
Dates
Royal assent	4 July 1838
Other legislation
Repealed by	Huddersfield Corporation Act 1913
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Deanhead Commissioners Act 1889
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to empower the Commissioners of the Deanhead Reservoir to execute Works and supply Water in bulk and for other purposes.
Citation	52 & 53 Vict. c. xxi
Dates
Royal assent	31 May 1889
Other legislation
Repealed by	Huddersfield Corporation Act 1913
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Deanhead Reservoir is a reservoir near Scammonden, in the metropolitan district of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

It is named after Dean Head, a village that was mostly submerged during construction of the dam. Construction started in 1838 and it opened a year later, almost 140 years before Scammonden Reservoir (its downstream neighbour) was opened in 1971. ^{[2] [3]} Water flowing out of Deanhead forms Black Burne Brook which now feeds into Scammonden Water. ^[4] Deanhead reservoir was originally constructed to supply water to the factories in the Blackburn Valley that was downstream of the reservoir. ^[5] During the 1995 drought, the outlines of foundations of buildings in the village were visible.

Deanhead also is the name of a Pennine pass to the south of the reservoir, which carries the A640 from Huddersfield to Denshaw, following the course of a Roman road.

References

1. "Deanhead Reservoir". British Lakes. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
2. "History of the Huddersfield Water Supplies (1939) – Chapter V". Huddersfield Exposed. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
3. "Scammonden Dam". Engineering Timelines. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
4. "Teeter around the edge of Scammonden Reservoir". Halifax Courier. 30 June 2015. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
5. Gibson, Mel (16 August 2008). "Into a secret valley; Cycle ride The Blackburn Valley and Scammonden". The Huddersfield Daily Examiner: 12. ISSN   0962-1644.