Cumbria sites listed in the MMP Step Three report for water and sewage industries:
Site | Grid ref | Grade | Notes |
Thirlmere Reservoir 1890-94 | NY 3094 1895 | ++ | England’s first masonry dam |
Thirlmere Aqueduct 1890-94 | NY 321 149 | ++ | Part of Manchester Corporation’s 1890s impounding scheme. It remains in use with numerous bridges of technological and architectural interest |
Thirlmere Aqueduct – Thickholme Bridge | NY 410 016 | +/++ | Aqueduct bridge, important architecturally |
Thirlmere Aqueduct – pipe bridge on the R.Mint | SD 528 948 | + | Aqueduct bridge, important architecturally |
Penrith Leat 1400-19 | NY 491 329 | R/+ | Documented medieval leat that supplied township of Penrith. SMR identifies it with Thacka Beck to NW of town. This beck is a V shaped channel that can be traced from an intake on R.Petteril to NW of Penrith |
Haweswater Reservoir and Aqueduct 1929-41 | NY 5029 1576 | ++ | First British mass concrete buttress dam. Substantial survival of associated navvy camp |
Roman Aqueduct | NY 6065 0600 | + | Substantial fragment of Roman leat that served Low Borrowbridge fort. Survives as well-defined earthworks |
The grading system:
++ Sites of clear national importance, for which statutory protection will normally be appropriate
+ Sites of national importance, but of less priority for resource allocation
R Sites of regional rather than national importance
FURTHER READING
Thirlmere mines (and the drowning of the valley) : Ian Tyler, Blue Rock Publications, 1999
FEATURED SITE
The Thirlmere and Haweswater aqueducts feature in the Hidden Manchester website.
(Page created 19/04/05. Last updated 07/01/24)