History of the Huddersfield Water Supplies
By T. W. Woodhead

CHAPTER II - EARLY WATER SUPPLIES

CANAL RESERVOIRS

The following are the reservoirs which feed the Huddersfield Canal from the Pennine Watershed, Marsden, to Huddersfield. Details of these have kindly been supplied by Mr. J. Alexander, District Engineer, L.M.S. Railway.

The Saddleworth-Marsden Township Boundary, which here follows the watershed, runs across the Black Moor Reservoir, and the water from this can run either into the Swellands Reservoir in Marsden, or into Brun Clough Reservoir in Saddleworth, this reservoir is 1235.35 feet O.D., has a capacity of 8.600.000 gallons and is made over the Stanedge Tunnel. The overflow from the Tunnel End Reservoir is carried over the canal by an aqueduct near the entrance to the tunnel.

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