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  1. 53 relations: Angling, Birdwatching, Buttress, Byte, Cheshire, Cheshire East Council, Clywedog Reservoir, Concrete, Costain Group, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Drainage basin, Drift Reservoir, Elevation, Embankment dam, Gravity, Gravity dam, Institution of Civil Engineers, List of dams and reservoirs in the United Kingdom, Liverpool Daily Post, Macclesfield, Manchester Evening News, Millstone Grit, Moorland, National parks of the United Kingdom, Nuthatch, Peak District, Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, Phytophthora ramorum, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, R. C. S. Walters, Rainow, Reservoir, River Dean, River Goyt, Roman Britain, Shale, Shining Tor, Shira Hydro-Electric Scheme, Stithians Reservoir, Sutton Bingham Reservoir, Tegg's Nose, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sentinel (Staffordshire), The Times, Treecreeper, Trout, United Utilities, Walking in the United Kingdom, Water treatment, ... Expand index (3 more) »

  2. Reservoirs in Cheshire
  3. Reservoirs of the Peak District

Angling

Angling (from Old English angol, meaning "hook") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth.

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Birdwatching

Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.

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Buttress

A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Cheshire East Council

Cheshire East Council is the local authority for Cheshire East, a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Clywedog Reservoir

The Clywedog Reservoir (Llyn Clywedog) is a reservoir near Llanidloes, Wales on the head-waters of the River Severn.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Costain Group

Costain Group plc is a British construction and engineering company headquartered in Maidenhead, England.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Drift Reservoir

Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, England, UK, just north of the village of Drift and west of Penzance.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Embankment dam

An embankment dam is a large artificial dam.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Gravity dam

A gravity dam is a dam constructed from concrete or stone masonry and designed to hold back water by using only the weight of the material and its resistance against the foundation.

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Institution of Civil Engineers

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom.

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List of dams and reservoirs in the United Kingdom

This is a list of dams and reservoirs in the United Kingdom.

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Liverpool Daily Post

The Liverpool Post was a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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Macclesfield

Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.

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Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England, founded in 1868.

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Millstone Grit

Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles.

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Moorland

Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils.

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National parks of the United Kingdom

National parks of the United Kingdom (parciau cenedlaethol; pàircean nàiseanta) are 15 areas of relatively undeveloped and scenic landscape across the country.

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Nuthatch

The nuthatches constitute a genus, Sitta, of small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme

Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme (1 July 1915 – 4 July 2000) was a British peer and racehorse owner.

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Phytophthora ramorum

Phytophthora ramorum is the oomycete known to cause the disease sudden oak death (SOD).

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Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy

Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; born 25 December 1936), is a member of the British royal family.

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R. C. S. Walters

Rupert Cavendish Skyring Walters (21 July 1888 – 19 February 1980) was a New Zealand-born British civil engineer, geologist and author, specialising in water supply.

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Rainow

Rainow is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, in the valley of the River Dean and next to the B5470 road between Macclesfield and Kettleshulme.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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River Dean

The River Dean rises at Longclough in Macclesfield Forest on the western edge of the Peak District foothills above the village of Rainow in north east Cheshire, England.

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River Goyt

The River Goyt is a tributary of the River Mersey in North West England.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Shining Tor

Shining Tor is the highest hill in Cheshire, England.

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Shira Hydro-Electric Scheme

The Shira Hydro-Electric Scheme is a project initiated by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to use the waters of the River Shira, the River Fyne and other small streams to generate hydroelectricity.

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Stithians Reservoir

Stithians Reservoir (Kreun Stedhyan) is a reservoir situated just under a mile to the west of the village of Stithians, Cornwall, England, UK.

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Sutton Bingham Reservoir

Sutton Bingham Reservoir is a reservoir near the village of Sutton Bingham in the civil parish of Closworth, Somerset, England.

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Tegg's Nose

Tegg's Nose is a hill east of Macclesfield in Cheshire, England. Lamaload Reservoir and Tegg's Nose are Tourist attractions in Cheshire.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Sentinel (Staffordshire)

The Sentinel is a daily regional newspaper circulating in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire areas of England.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Treecreeper

The treecreepers are a family, Certhiidae, of small passerine birds, widespread in wooded regions of the Northern Hemisphere and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Trout

Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.

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United Utilities

United Utilities Group plc (UU) is the United Kingdom's largest listed water company.

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Walking in the United Kingdom

Walking is one of the most popular outdoor recreational activities in the United Kingdom, and within England and Wales there is a comprehensive network of rights of way that permits access to the countryside.

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Water treatment

Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use.

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Weir Wood Reservoir

Weir Wood Reservoir is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Forest Row in East Sussex.

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Windgather Rocks

The Windgather Rocks (a.s.l.) is a gritstone crag on the Derbyshire–Cheshire border in England. Lamaload Reservoir and Windgather Rocks are Tourist attractions in Cheshire.

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Woodpecker

Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers.

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See also

Reservoirs in Cheshire

Reservoirs of the Peak District

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamaload_Reservoir

Also known as Lamaload, Lamaload Lake.

, Weir Wood Reservoir, Windgather Rocks, Woodpecker.