Reservoir to your left, The M62 Liverpool to Hull motorway to your right about 20 feet away!
The bridge is a pretty scary place to be especially if windy.
Scammonden Water is 51.8 metres at its deepest point and water is drawn-off through a 2.5 kilometre tunnel driven southwards to supply Huddersfield. The overflow bellmouth, next to the valve shaft superstructure, discharges water to the valley below via a tunnel in the valley on the reservoir's eastern side. The reservoir started to fill in July 1969 and the area was landscaped and parking and other facilities were provided.[3]
The motorway M62, which was dependent on the completion of the dam, was opened to traffic on 20 December 1970 and officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II who unveiled a plaque near the valve tower of Scammonden Water on 14 October 1971.[3]
The word "foss" is Old Norse for waterfall and is very common in Yorkshire and Northern England in general.
This location has recently been used in an TV episode of "All creatures great and small" about a Vet by the name of James Herriot.
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