Dove Stone Reservoirs

           15th June 2017

  Today's adventure was going to take the Lads over the boarder into Lancashire! To see what's on offer in the red rose county! I think we are in for a surprise. 
Our journey starts once again in Leeds at the railway station, most of the Lads meet up there in order to catch our various trains. This time it is one heading for the village of Greenfield, we have to change trains at Huddersfield in order to get there. So it's all aboard the 9:36 heading west, Dave joined the train at Dewsbury. Now it's just a few minutes ride along the track to Huddersfield then change platforms at catch the 10:15 Wigan train. A  few stops later  and  through a rather lengthy tunnel we find ourselves at Greenfield , so it's over the road and down the hill heading for the bus stop near the Kingfisher pub. We catch the 180 bus and ride a few stops through  the village, eventually getting off the bus at the Clarence Hotel.
Now our walking begins ,some seven miles or so we are lead to believe !So it's best foot forward as we head for the countryside and what ever else lies before us. We soon have to make some difficult decisions ! which pathway to take , eventually we are told to follow the one by the riverside, this should take us up to the reservoir. We finally got there some thirty minutes later, time for a snack now 
courtesy of the burger van that was parked close bye. Very nice but expensive sausage sandwich.
From here we travel anti clockwise around the parimeter of Dove Stone reservoir admiring such a magnificent setting.









40 minutes on and we were nearing the dam wall of the next reservoir Yeomans Hey.
Once we had crossed the dam wall we took a short while to admire the spectacular views.
From here our journey now took us along the left hand side of this dam and a steady climb up through a wooded area passing a Stone built overflow channel with fancy constructed sluice gates.





Halfway along this left hand bank the pathway splits into a higher and lower route.
Keith John and Dave chose the higher route while Eddie and Colin took the other, much to their dismay, for when they reached the next dam wall they were faced with a rather steep climb to join the 
rest of us. This achieved we now walked a short distance to the beginning of the Greenfield reservoir 

some five or six minutes away.



At this point we rested for a short while to reflect upon our journey so far, all of us were greatly surprised by the amount of work that had been undertaken in order to achieve these dams and create
a plenty full water supply for the surrounding towns and villages.
Now for our return journey back to our starting point , the Clarence Hotel in Greenfield.
This proved to be a very informative walk as we met a number of other local residents who gave us  a  brief history of this wonderful place.
Such as , when it was constructed, Dove Stone Reservoir 1960 - 66
The others many years earlier late 1800.
Also about the various aircraft crashes in the forties and a murder that was committed in this locality , all this and more filled our minds with intriguing thoughts!
Now back at the bus stop near the Clarence Hotel we had a short while to wait until our bus took us further along the village until we reached the Kingfisher Pub, this is where we had a meal before we caught the train back to Huddersfield and then our further journeys home.

What a great adventure and experience today in Lancashire.
Cheers Lads 






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