Widdop is a remote and beautiful area of moorland between Hebden Bridge and Burnley. The area has a wild and colourful setting of boulder-strewn bracken-clad slopes topped by millstone grit crags. Surrounding the reservoir on all sides are numerous small crags and boulders, which offer some excellent climbing and bouldering. The most well known are the Lakeside Boulders These are the large boulders beside the south shore of the reservoir next to the conifer plantation. Most weekends and summer evenings you can see rock climbers here. Widdop and many other local reservoirs were built by the engineer John Frederick La Trobe Bateman FRS. In 1834, after he became apprentice to Mr Dunn (a surveyor and engineer from Oldham), he set up in business as a civil engineer and land surveyor in Manchester. In 1869, he was invited to attend the opening of the Suez Canal. The temple-like design of the valve tower reminds us that he was very interested in and inspired by Egyptian matters. The additional building built by Yorkshire Water in their own so-called Egyptian style is a much less impressive effort to say the least! Widdop reservoir (the name means wide valley) was built to supply water to Halifax and materials were transported to the site up a 5.5 mile horse-drawn tramway from the velley bottom. A shanty town known locally as "Navvyopolis" was established at Widdop to cater for the navvies and their families. This had about two dozen huts, a store, a bakehouse and a reading room ...
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