page_title: Warley Moor Reservoir
hierarchical_section_title: Warley Moor Reservoir
caption_attribution_description: English: Warley Moor Reservoir near to Ovenden Moor, Mixenden in West Yorkshire. This is the home of Halifax Sailing Club
context_page_description: Warley Moor Reservoir, also known as Fly Flatts Reservoir, is a drinking water reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, owned and operated by Yorkshire Water.
  Completed in 1872, the reservoir was built by the engineer John Frederick La Trobe Bateman. The first sod was cut on 20 May 1864, by the then Mayor of Halifax, William Holdsworth, who used a silver spade with the inscription:
  Halifax Corporation – The first sod of the Warley Moor Reservoir was turned with this spade, on Friday, the 20th May, 1864, by William Irving Holdsworth, Esq., Mayor of Halifax; J. F. Bateman, Engineer; John Parkinson and Joseph Mann, contractors; J. E. Norris, Town Clerk
  The reservoir covers 68 acres, is 45 feet deep when full and holds up to 193,000,000 imperial gallons. It was notably described in Whiteley Turner's 1913 book A Spring-Time Saunter: Round and About Bronte Land.
  The reservoir is used by Halifax Sailing Club.
context_section_description: Warley Moor Reservoir, also known as Fly Flatts Reservoir, is a drinking water reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, owned and operated by Yorkshire Water.
  Completed in 1872, the reservoir was built by the engineer John Frederick La Trobe Bateman. The first sod was cut on 20 May 1864, by the then Mayor of Halifax, William Holdsworth, who used a silver spade with the inscription:
  Halifax Corporation – The first sod of the Warley Moor Reservoir was turned with this spade, on Friday, the 20th May, 1864, by William Irving Holdsworth, Esq., Mayor of Halifax; J. F. Bateman, Engineer; John Parkinson and Joseph Mann, contractors; J. E. Norris, Town Clerk
  The reservoir covers 68 acres (28 ha), is 45 feet (14 m) deep when full and holds up to  193,000,000 imperial gallons (880,000,000 L). It was notably described in Whiteley Turner's 1913 book A Spring-Time Saunter: Round and About Bronte Land.
  The reservoir is used by Halifax Sailing Club.
caption: Warley Moor Reservoir near to Ovenden Moor, Mixenden in West Yorkshire. This is the home of Halifax Sailing Club
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