Hisehope Reservoir, North Pennines

Name: Hisehope Reservoir
Address: North Pennines, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in North Pennines

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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. ()

Elevation: 1122 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 54°48'47"N, 1°58'3"W

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North Pennines United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Pow Hill Bog, Hownsgill Viaduct, Blanchland Abbey, Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine.

3.4 miN
Park
Pow Hill Bog
87 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.
4.9 miE
Bridge
Hownsgill Viaduct
124 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.
4.3 miNW
Monastery, Sacred and religious sites, Historical place
Blanchland Abbey
111 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.
2.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
63 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 miN
Church
St 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.
6 miNE
54°51'10"N • 1°49'60"W
The Derwent Centre, Consett
154 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
4.2 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Tunstall Reservoir
109 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.
1.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Smiddy Shaw Reservoir
35 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.
7.6 miNE
Forts and castles
Vindomora
194 min walk • Vindomora was an auxiliary fort on Dere Street, in the province of Lower Britain. Its ruins, now known as Ebchester Roman Fort, are situated at Ebchester in the English county of Durham, to the north of Consett and 12 miles west-south-west from Newcastle upon Tyne.
4.3 miS
Archaeological site
Crawley Edge Cairns, Stanhope
110 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.
1.4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Waskerley Reservoir
36 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.