Waskerley Reservoir

#5669 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Lake

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Waskerley Reservoir is the largest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Smiddy Shaw and Hisehope Reservoirs. ()

Maximum depth: 80 ftElevation: 1152 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 54°47'35"N, 1°57'55"W

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Waskerley Reservoir – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Pow Hill Bog, Hisehope Reservoir, Hownsgill Viaduct, Blanchland Abbey.

4.8 miN
Park
Pow Hill Bog
122 min walk • Pow Hill Bog is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of County Durham, England. It lies alongside Derwent Reservoir, approximately 2 km north-west of the village of Edmundbyers and adjacent to the Edmundbyers Common portion of the Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor SSSI.
1.4 miN
Lake
Hisehope Reservoir, North Pennines
36 min walk • Hisehope Reservoir is the smallest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Smiddy Shaw Reservoirs. The reservoir was completed 1906, and is owned and operated by Northumbrian Water.
5.4 miNE
Bridge
Hownsgill Viaduct
138 min walk • The Hownsgill Viaduct is a former railway bridge located west of Consett in County Durham, England. It is currently used as a footpath and cycleway.
5.3 miNW
Monastery, Sacred and religious sites, Historical place
Blanchland Abbey
136 min walk • Blanchland Abbey at Blanchland, in the English county of Northumberland, was founded as a premonstratensian priory in 1165 by Walter de Bolbec II, and was a daughter house of Croxton Abbey in Leicestershire. It became an abbey in the late 13th century.
3.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
86 min walk • Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Derwentside district of north County Durham and the Tynedale district of south Northumberland, England.
6.7 miNE
54°51'10"N • 1°49'60"W
The Derwent Centre, Consett
171 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
3.2 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Tunstall Reservoir
83 min walk • Tunstall Reservoir was a water supply storage reservoir completed in 1879, and now used solely to maintain minimum regulatory flows on the River Wear in northeast England.
7.5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Fairy Holes Cave
192 min walk • Fairy Holes Cave is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of west County Durham, England. It is located on the western flanks of Snowhope Moor, on the right bank of Westernhope Burn, some 3 km south-west of the village of Eastgate.
1.7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Smiddy Shaw Reservoir
45 min walk • Smiddy Shaw Reservoir is one of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Hisehope Reservoirs. The reservoir, which was completed by 1872, is owned and operated by Northumbrian Water.
7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Westernhope Burn Wood
179 min walk • Westernhope Burn Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of south-west County Durham, England.
3 miSW
Archaeological site
Crawley Edge Cairns, Stanhope
78 min walk • The Crawley Edge Cairns are a series of forty-two Bronze Age round barrows, cairns and clearance cairns located in a field in Crawleyside, near Stanhope, County Durham, England.