Smiddy Shaw Reservoir
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Facts and practical information
Smiddy Shaw Reservoir is one of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Hisehope Reservoirs. ()
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Smiddy Shaw Reservoir – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Pow Hill Bog, Hisehope Reservoir, Hownsgill Viaduct, Blanchland Abbey.
4.1 miNWParkPow Hill Bog
105 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 miWLakeHisehope Reservoir, North Pennines
35 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.
3.7 miNEBridgeHownsgill Viaduct
94 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.
5.5 miNWMonastery, Sacred and religious sites, Historical placeBlanchland Abbey
142 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.
1.7 miNNature, Natural attraction, CanyonDerwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
44 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.
5.6 miNChurchSt Andrew's Church
143 min walk • St Andrew's Church, Shotley, is a redundant Anglican church standing in an isolated position at a height of 960 feet on Greymare Hill in Northumberland, England.
4.9 miNE 3.4 miSENature, Natural attraction, LakeTunstall Reservoir
87 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.
5.3 miEFarmHall Hill Farm, Durham
136 min walk • Hall Hill Farm is a tourist attraction located in County Durham, near Tow Law, England.
4.7 miSWArchaeological siteCrawley Edge Cairns, Stanhope
120 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.
1.7 miSWNature, Natural attraction, LakeWaskerley Reservoir
45 min walk • 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.