Baitings reservoir

Past Baitings Reservoir today, it forms the upper reservoir of a two-reservoir cascade for Yorkshire Water.
The mass concrete gravity dam structure, completed in 1956, ( thought it would be older)is slightly curved in plan, giving a crest length of 470m and a maximum height of 51m.
The dam impounds the River Ryburn and retains a reservoir around 1km long, fed from a rough open moorland catchment, plus a small indirect catchment fed through the Manshead Tunnel.