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Toddbrook Reservoir, the Glossary

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Canal reservoirs in England
Dams in England
Reservoirs in Derbyshire
Reservoirs of the Peak District
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire

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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Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London that provides design, engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment.

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Boeing Chinook (UK variants)

The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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British Waterways

British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom.

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Canal & River Trust

The Canal & River Trust (CRT), branded as Glandŵr Cymru in Wales, holds the guardianship of 2,000 miles of canals and rivers, together with reservoirs and a wide range of heritage buildings and structures, in England and Wales.

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Chapel Milton

Chapel Milton is a hamlet on the outskirts of Chapel-en-le-Frith on the road leading from there to Chinley and to Glossop.

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Combs Reservoir

Combs Reservoir is a canal-feeder reservoir in the Peak District National Park, close to Combs village in Derbyshire. Toddbrook Reservoir and Combs Reservoir are reservoirs in Derbyshire, reservoirs of the Peak District and sites of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire.

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Construction aggregate

Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates.

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Derbyshire Constabulary

Derbyshire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Derbyshire, England.

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Duck

Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae.

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Environment Agency

The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body, established in 1996 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with responsibilities relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment in England (and until 2013 also Wales).

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Furness Vale

Furness Vale is a village in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, between New Mills and Whaley Bridge.

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Grey heron

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and also parts of Africa.

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High Peak, Derbyshire

High Peak is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England, covering a high moorland plateau in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park.

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Kettleshulme

Kettleshulme (Old Norse Ketil's island or Ketil's watermeadow) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley, in the Cheshire East district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Kier Group

Kier Group plc is a British construction, services and property group active in building and civil engineering, support services, and the Private Finance Initiative.

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Macclesfield Canal

The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in 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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Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed in 1847 when the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway joined with authorised but unbuilt railway companies, forming a proposed network from Manchester to Grimsby.

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Marchantiophyta

The Marchantiophyta are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts.

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Moss

Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.

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Mott MacDonald

The Mott MacDonald Group is a management, engineering and development consultancy headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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New Mills

New Mills is a town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, south-east of Stockport and from Manchester at the confluence of the River Goyt and Sett.

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Ordnance datum

An ordnance datum (OD) is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps.

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Peak District Boundary Walk

The Peak District Boundary Walk is a circular walking trail, starting and finishing at Buxton and broadly following the boundary of the Peak District, Britain's first national park.

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Peak Forest Canal

The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow (gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England.

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Puddling (civil engineering)

Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) – a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable.

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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 Goyt

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

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Rochdale Canal

The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Shining Tor

Shining Tor is the highest hill in Cheshire, England.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Spillway

A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself.

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Sutton Lane Ends

Sutton Lane Ends or Sutton is a semi-rural village and civil parish, approximately one mile south of Macclesfield.

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Theresa Villiers

Theresa Anne Villiers (born 5 March 1968) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet from 2005 to 2024, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2005.

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Till

Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.

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References

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

Toddbrook Reservoir, the Glossary

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See also

Canal reservoirs in England

Dams in England

Reservoirs in Derbyshire

Reservoirs of the Peak District

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire

References