Scar House Reservoir

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area = 70 ha
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volume = 10,064 tcm (2,200 mio gallons)
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Scar House Reservoir is the second of the two reservoirs in Upper Nidderdale, the other being Angram Reservoir. Between them they attract around 150,00 visitors a year.

Angram and Scar House were built to supply water to the Bradford area of West Yorkshire. Water from here is transferred to Chellow Heights via the Nidd Aqueduct, which is a major engineering achievement as it doesn't involve any pumping.

The dam at Scar House contains over one million tonnes of masonry, it rises to 55 metres above the river and is almost 600 metres long. It was completed 1936. Dam height is 71 m (233 ft).

History

Scar House was the last reservoir to be built in the Nidd Valley and took fifteen years to complete, stone for the reservoir dam was quarried from the two sites which can be seen either side of the valley at Scar House.

Scar House was once home to more than 1,250 villagers who lived and worked building the Nidderdale dam in the 1920s.

Facilities

*Car park
*Toilets
*3 picnic areas
*Wheelchair Access

Activities

*Fishing - a private club Nidderdale
*Angling club
*Walking
*Horse Riding
*Mountain biking