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Grimwith Reservoir

📍 AppletreewickNorth Yorkshire

Originally built to supply Bradford as a compensation reservoir. Expanded in the 1970s with new dam.

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Ruin at Grimwith Reservoir.
Ruin at Grimwith Reservoir.Photo: Steve Partridge · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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Access on foot.

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Originally built to supply Bradford as a compensation reservoir. Expanded in the 1970s with new dam.

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