The History Hayfield Water Supply 1900 to 1960
The water supply to Hayfield from the Harry Moor Spring source was controversial in its inception and also in its closure. Before 1900 Hayfield was like many…
Hayfield Water Supply History 2
Information here relates to the period 1960s through to 2000 as told to me by an ex STW employee who worked on the Hayfield Water Supply Scheme during this…
Location Map of Mellor & Harrymoor Water Supply
KEY:
HM SPR = Harry Moor Springs
HM TANKS = Harry Moor Tanks or spring collection chambers.
BIRCH VALE WPS = Water Pumping Station (in the car par of the ex…
HM SPR = Harry Moor Springs
HM TANKS = Harry Moor Tanks or spring collection chambers.
BIRCH VALE WPS = Water Pumping Station (in the car par of the ex…
The Location of Harry Moor Springs
Harrymoor Spring = the original chamber which is seen on the photo with the councilors complaining about it not being locked.
Harrymoor Tanks = collecting…
Harrymoor Tanks = collecting…
Dangerous Lid at Harrymoor Spring.
A HAYFIELD councillor said he was "disgusted" that the trap door covering an open piped section of Harrymoor up on Kinder was not padlocked, and warned that…
2019 Harry Moor Spring Chamber
It still appears to be unlocked!
2019 Harrymoor Spring Source
Chamber is positioned bottom of the photo.
2019 Harrymoor Spring
This may be an overflow from the chamber above or may be a new issue.
This eventually reaches the River Sett and then the River Mersey.
This eventually reaches the River Sett and then the River Mersey.
2019 Land Surrounding Harrymoor Spring
This gives context to the location of the Harrymoor Spring with Kinder Scout rising up beyond.
2019 Harrymoor Tanks - looking Uphill
The pipe on the left is a shroud tube in which there is a sluice valve head presumably on an extension spindle. The other 2 pipes are 10 inch uPVC. These appear…
2022 Overflow from Harrymoor Tanks
These appear to be 10 inch uPVC overflow pipes from Harrymoor Tanks. The pipe lower down is either a washout or an outlet pipe with a wierd looking joint to the…
2022 Harrymoor Tanks - elevated side view
Looks like 3 separate tanks at different levels? The chamber with the rusty coloured lid on the far left of the photo is shown on the next photo. The following…
2022 Harrymoor Tanks - the Rusty Lid Chamber.
This is an unlocked standard drain cover of the type often found on domestic sewers. This type of lid does not stop ingress of contamination from the surface of…
2022 Harrymoor Tanks - Inside the Rusty Lid Camber
This chamber about 3 feet deep is still a bit of a mystery! On the right s a blue coloured plastic pipe. Maybe it is 2 inch or 3 inch diameter MDPE. On the left…
2022 Harrymoor Tanks - Chamber 1 (lowest)
Reservoir type access cover with sampling access. This design of lid was fitted to reservoirs from about the the 1980s. Made from Galvanised Steel, it was…
2022 Harrymoor Tanks - Chamber 2 (middle)
Reservoir access cover with sampling access. The post is a for affixing an indication plate showing the location of lids over underground apparatus such as…
Indication Plate at Harrymoor Tanks
There is a 150 nominal diameter Sluice Valve 6 metre a away. Imperial size is 6 inch valve and 20 feet away.
Photo taken 2022
Photo taken 2022
Harrymoor Tanks - Chamber 3 (highest)
Highest of the 3 chambers - possibly a reservoir access chamber.
Photo taken 2022
Photo taken 2022
Approx. Locations of the 4 Kinder Bank Reservoirs (referred to as Tanks)
The naming is in chronological order of construction. They are not shown on the ordnance survey maps, so the locations are deduced from Lidar Scans. KB1 the…
Contours at Hayfield.
These are in feet above Ordnance Datum.
Harrymoor Spring Lower Tank (not on this map) is at 405m aOD = 1319 ft aOD
KB1 about 740 ft aOD
KB2 about 780 ft…
Harrymoor Spring Lower Tank (not on this map) is at 405m aOD = 1319 ft aOD
KB1 about 740 ft aOD
KB2 about 780 ft…
Structure on Kinder Bank OS map c.1922
The small blue square is not very far up the bank, so could just be a small building.
Location and Access Hayfield DSR
Location is off Kinder Road. The private track seen in the photo leads to house called Sheperds Hey. The brick building behind the wall (top-right), is the…
2022 Kinder Bank DBS
The brick building on the right of the photo is Kinder Bank Distribution Booser Station. On the left is an earlier stone built building. It may be the small…
2018c Rear of Kinder Bank Booster Station.
Chamber on the left may contain contain a meter or other apparatus. The corrugated tin roof is the Kinder Bank Distribution Booster Station and Kinder Road is…
2018c KB1 Kinder Bank - The Balancing Tank.
This is the so called 'large' tank is not very far up from the road. It is the first reservoir to be built on Kinder Bank and and was completed in 1903.…
2025 KB2 Break Pressure Tank built 1909
What looks to be another lid - possibly the original KB2 The Lidar location shows it near the top of a track and this is shown here by the gate. Kinder Bank…
2025 KB2 Break Pressure Tank built 1909
What you are seeing here is a new lid lin roughly the expected location of the Break Pressure tank - thought to be opposite a track up the hillside of Kinder…
1926 KB3 Opening of the Division Tank at Kinder Bank
Members of Hayfield Council are pictured here in April 1926 gathered for the grand 'switching-on' ceremony of water at Kinder Bank. Water is delivered from…
2025 KB3 Division Tank at Kinder Bank
This is the disused DIVISION TANK taken 99 years after it was opened in 1926. It is photographed from roughly the same position as the one shown in the…
KB3 Division Tank at Kinder Bank
Stepping back down the hill from the previous photo. The Broken lids can be seen on the ledge behind the stone retaining wall. The contour at the top of the…
