Lower Roddlesworth Reservoir is a

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

on the

River Roddlesworth The River Roddlesworth (also known as Rocky Brook) is a river in Lancashire, England, a tributary of the River Darwen. Course The source of the river is on the slopes of Great Hill, just above the ruins known as ''Pimm's'', where the infant riv ...

close to

Abbey Village Abbey Village is a village in the English county of Lancashire and the constituency of Chorley. It is located on the A675 road, from Blackburn, from Chorley, from Preston and ten miles from Bolton. Etymology The name is believed to have ar ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

, England. The reservoir is close to Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir and Rake Brook Reservoir, situated within thick forest. It was constructed in the 1850s by Thomas Hawksley for

Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Liverpool Corporation Waterworks and its successors have provided a public water supply and sewerage and sewage treatment services to the city of Liverpool, England. In 1625 water was obtained from a single well and delivered by cart, but as the ...

, and together with Rake Brook, was designed to hold compensation water to maintain flows in the rivers, whereas the reservoirs at Lower Rivington, Upper Rivington and

Anglezarke Anglezarke is a sparsely populated civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is an agricultural area used for sheep farming and is also the site of reservoirs that were built to supply water to Liverpool. The area has a la ...

held water for the public water supply. Water from the two compensation reservoirs was fed into Anglezarke reservoir by a channel called The Goit. An Act of Parliament to authorise its construction was obtained in 1847, and Hawksley designed an earth dam which was tall at its highest point and long. It impounded of water when full. The reservoir was completed in 1857.

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