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Dist:0.2km<br/>This view in a drought year shows how shallow this reservoir is, situated on the saddle of the hill. See also [[1120117]].
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.4km<br/>Unusual cloud formations near Blackmoor Foot Reservoir.
©Mark Mercer
Dist:0.4km<br/>A view NW across Blackmoorfoot Reservoir, Moorside Edge is in the distance with its twin television masts
©Sue Trescott
Dist:0.5km<br/>Windsor is on the right, and Little London down the road. These are in Meltham, as the boundary runs down the right (south) side of the road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.5km<br/>Laing built the new water treatment works at Blackmoorfoot in 1983/4. These are the flocculation and flotation tanks under construction.
©Stephen Craven
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.6km<br/>This stretch of bridleway is one kilometre in length and links the Wills O' Nats pub to Holt Head Road to the west of Blackmoorfoot Reservoir.
©michael ely
Dist:0.6km<br/>Photographed from Castle Hill. Meltham Cop is a noted landmark hill. See [[897876]]
©Tim Marchant
Dist:0.6km<br/>Sits beneath Meltham Cop on Blackmoorfoot Road. There was still evidence of the flooding mentioned in the more contextual photograph [[493996]]
©michael ely
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is off the old Slaithwaite Road, and gives access to fields. Blackmoorfoot Reservoir is in the distance, and despite the gloomy clouds Castle Hill and the Victoria Tower 6.5km away can be seen on the horizon.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km<br/>This view of the road shows the stone kerbs, and how the road is wide enough for material to be stored on it without interfering with its use as a bridleway.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Cows in the large square field shown on both the historical and present maps (and which I measure as 7.5ha / 18.5 acres) on Black Moor. View east towards Blackmoorfoot reservoir and Castle Hill.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km<br/>The moorland hamlet of Blackmoorfoot nestles below the dam of Blackmoorfoot reservoir, near Huddersfield. Subject GR: SE097131. Observer GR: SE094131.
©Ian M
Dist:0.6km<br/>Blackmoorfoot overflowing at the end of December 1984. Compare the almost-empty scene four months earlier [[1120117]] to show how quickly an upland reservoir like this can fill up, even given that it is fed by only a couple of relatively minor streams and is constantly being drained by the adjacent treatment works.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.6km<br/>Blackmoorfoot reservoir at a very low level during the drought year of 1984. Compare with the later photo of it full [[1120128]].
©Stephen Craven

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