Digley Reservoir
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| Digley Reservoir | |
|---|---|
  Digley Reservoir | |
| Location | West Yorkshire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°33′35″N 1°50′16″W / 53.55972°N 1.83778°W |
| Type | Reservoir |
| Primary inflows | Marsden Clough |
| Catchment area | 2,350 acres (953 ha) |
| Basin countries | United Kingdom |
| Surface area | 42 acres (17 ha) |
| Average depth | 61 feet (18.6 m) |
| Water volume | 660 million imperial gallons (3.0 Gl) |
| Shore length1 | 0.81 miles (1.3 km) |
| Surface elevation | 794 feet (242 m) |
| References | [1] |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Digley Reservoir is a reservoir located downstream of Bilberry Reservoir, 2 miles (3.2 km) south west of Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire, England.[2] The reservoir was planned during the 1930s, with much land being bought for its construction, but it was not completed until 1954.
A bill was presented before Parliament in October 1936 to enable the Huddersfield Corporation to build a reservoir at Digley, impounding Digley Brook. This was passed in July 1937 as the Huddersfield Corporation Act 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. lxix) and required the purchase of several buildings, including two mills and a pub (the Isle of Skye Inn),[3] though one of the mills was derelict.[4] The reservoir did not open until 1954.[5]
