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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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