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2017.08.27 - Car Ramble -Langsett Barn Car P, North side Resv upper path, Little Don, Swinden Pltn, join Hordron Rd (at Long Moor Clough), Upper Hordron, Grouse Butts, cross A628Rd at Stone Rucks Moss, Trig Stn at South Nab, West side Upper Windleden Resv, N to then along Windle Edge Rd, Rd N to Winscar Resv, cross 'rock fill embkmt', thr OAL Broad Hill Bank, Rd to Townhead, FP past Lower Town Head & Eltock Farm, Rd to Carlecotes, pass St Anne' sChurch to lane end, then ~ ESE to Soughley, cross River Don, cross TP Trail at Cote Bank Bridge, ~ S to Swinden Walls, several routes to West end Langsett Resv, then Barn Car P. - leader John Taylor - Sunday 

coffee break before the walk starts

looking back on Langsett Reservoir Dam wall

The Porter or Little Don River

view to left of direction of travel

view to left of direction of travel

Grouse butts

no peasants to clean up the mess left by the gentry after shooting tame grouse?

battery assisted mountain bike - battery assisted drives for walker's legs next?

The little Don below?

collapsing snow barrier

view of Emley Moor transmission tower

readying to cross a fairly busy A628 Sheffield to Manchester Road

zoomed into Winscar Reservoir

farm behind Upper Windleden Reservoir

Trig station at South Nab

Upper Windleden Reservoir to left, Lower Windleden reservoir to right, Windscar Reservoir behind in middle

Upper Windleden Reservoir

Winscar Reservoir

Windle Edge

Winscar Reservoir (with a rock filled embankment) has a crest length of 520m and is 53m high. The upstream slope is 1vertical to 1.7horizontal. The downstream face is 1vertical to 1.4horizontal. The reservoir was built between 1972 to 75.

Winscar Reservoir ahead

looking from Winscars rock filled embankment downward

looking from Winscar's rock filled embankment downward

crossing the embankment

the original bitumen membrane was replaced by this geomembrane due to leakage in 2001. Grouting works were also done on the rock embankment

The top of the spillway

looking down the spillway

The fairly steep face of the downstream embankment

in open access land (OAL)

an Academy School built in 1830?

St Anne's - Carlecotes

at the bottom of the Church Lane - care required to find the right footpath - no sign

Soughley

beehives

crossing the River Don

path up toward the T.P.Trail and our crossing point Cote Bank Bridge

heading toward Swinden walls

looking back - note timber wall retaining footpath on stream edge

an oasis in a disused quarry a few hundred meters from the Car Park

note substantial tree growing out of rock face - reflected in water

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