Chew Reservoir

It’s been a long day. At the crack of dawn this morning I was on the high Pennine moors above Oldham. Maybe it was a dream. I came across Chew Reservoir quite suddenly out of the swirling morning mist. When full it holds 200 million gallons of water but the current level is substantially lower. Completed in 1912, when it was the highest reservoir in England at 474 metres above sea level, and only succeeded by Cow Green Reservoir in the Tees Valley in the 70s. A few minutes exploring and the mist had dissipated with some light in the sky.