Ladybower Reservoir & the Strange Tunnel Deep Below Win Hill in the Peak District
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Ladybower Reservoir & the Strange Tunnel Deep Below Win Hill in the Peak District - Is the Mystery solved?
A few months ago i discovered a strange doorway, a portal into the rockface. This lay at the lower reaches of Win Hill in the Peak District right beside Ladybower Reservoir and a mysterious section of industrial railway track.
After weeks of working out what this tunnel in the hill is for and where the other end may be, i finally have the answers.
Join me as i walk from the Ladybower Portal, over the summit of Win Hill and down towards Nether Booth in the Hope Valley in search of the extraction point, the beginning of the Win Hill Tunnel.
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The other tunnel entrance at castleton is on peakshole water and has a weird 12 sided pool for the tunnel weir.I visited it many years ago.Loving your videos i have spent most of my life walking those hills with only living 20 minutes drive away.Keep up the good work.
Hi TE, great video, I measured the tunnel at around 2800 yds , 1.56 miles. from the ground topography the tunnel would not be straight but would run north east for a little way then turning east I would say after a couple of hundred yards likely at a manhole but could be a radius. I would also assume the first length would be cut and cover till it reached the bottom of Win Hill. I love the Victorian and later works, so interesting.
FYI I was a Civil Engineer for 40 years before retiring, 25 years at British Waterways as it was, the majority of that time working on Canal Reservoirs, tunnels and Canal Feeders LOL, I may be one of the last Engineers to have surveyed and fixed the water supply to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from Winterburn Reservoir near Skipton to the Canal near Barnoldswick (9.5 miles Circa 1890) and the Almond Feeder In Scotland, near Broxburn, which is tunnel and open channel on the side of a deep gorge. and several others.
Brilliant Mike thanks for some very interesting information and thank you for watching too. It certainly feels longer when walking the distance. The one from Castleton intrigues me. I've roughly located where it begins.... But where it used to discharge at ladybower I have no idea. I did wonder if it may intact intercept this particular tunnel
@@TrekkingExploration I think it unlikely given the distance unless it goes into Ladybower closer to the dam, I will do further research and I would be happy to tag along if possible although not much good for long distance walking at the moment, have a look at Winterburn that would make a good film for you perhaps.
Mike
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I was expecting you to bump ino Patrick Dickinson up there...cooking a huge feast as usual :-).
Great interesting video Ant.
Imagine if you had got past that gate and walked all the way through, only to find a tall grim looking sluice gate with grid above it... stuff of nightmares
Ha ha how random would that be? Thanks very much for watching
@Trekking Exploration Nah, thank YOU for doing all these mate. But as soon as you said Kinder I thought of Pats favourite wild camp site
@@gs425 I purchased all the wild camping gear in early 2020. Wanted to give it a go. COVID put payed to that. I still have it all though
Nice little stone dam, the views on the walk over the hill where stunning, thanks for sharing them with us.
So pleased you enjoyed it and thank you 🙂🙂
I've known about this tunnel from my childhood in the 1950s. As a family, we often went to the top of Win Hill and I remember hearing about Win Hill Tunnel. I never knew its exact route and thought it went to Castleton to take water from Peakshole Water. I later heard it took water from the River Noe. Now, thanks to your excellent video, my questions are finally answered. Great to see the views from the summit of Win Hill. It's many years since I was up there, don't think I'll ever go up there again now I've reach old age.
Amazing to solve this mystery. Love the photography too, so atmospheric.
It's surprising the lengths our forefathers went to to provide good quality water. And all in the spirit of public service, unlike today.
Being from Leicester, this was the water I drank until I left home as the reservoirs feed Leicestershire via a long aquaduct which I think ends at Swithland Reservoir in north Leicestershire.
The aqueduct ends at Hallgates Reservoir in Bradgate Park.
Absolutely stunning aerial shots! The light and mist was just perfect. Beautiful sights indeed. And so glad you got to solve that mystery. That area must hold a few more yet! Great video once again!
Thanks very much indeed Steve. One mystery solved leads to another.... Now to look for the third one. 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration I'm spot on target and I know I am & you know it too. I strongly suspect that the railways now disused in the midlands Area only existed due to this locations and some others like it in the area... So what happens now? Do you have what it takes to debate me live on the subject? I honestly doubt that you do, & even if you wanted to you wouldn't be allowed to anyway of course.
What a fantastic video. I've walked past the tunnel exit many times and always wondered what it was. Thank you for solving the mystery.
Thanks very much for watching I'm pleased you enjoyed it 🙂
I found this, will try to find the map:
Rivelin tunnel
Construction of the tunnel began in 1903 and was completed in 1909. It was built to use the plentiful supplies of the River Derwent as compensation water for the River Rivelin rather than draining the more valuable waters of Redmires Reservoirs. The tunnel is 4.5miles long, 6feet high and 6feet wide, it has a fall towards Rivelin of 1 in 3,600 which is 6 ft 7in (2.0m) over its entire length. The tunnel takes water which has come through a drain hole in the south east corner of Ladybower Reservoir and delivers it into the Lower Rivelin Reservoir with the tunnel emerging into a grass covered underground tank on the south bank at a point next to where the Wyming Brook enters the Lower reservoir. The tunnel cost £135,151, which was £13,000 under budget.[4] A series of sighting towers was constructed to aid in the survey of the tunnel. The collapsed remains of one tower can be found on Stanage Edge. An extant tower stands by the footpath adjacent to Redmires Upper Reservoir conduit. An electric railway ran through Rivelin Tunnel when it was under construction.www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoom&keywords=Ref_No_increment;MATCHES;(%5E%7C%20+)s09547(%24%7C%20+)&continueUrl=ZnJvbnRlbmQucGhwPyZrZXl3b3Jkcz1hbGwlM0JNQVRDSEVTJTNCJTI4JTVFJTdDKyUyQiUyOXMwOTU0NyUyOCUyNCU3QyslMkIlMjkmYWN0aW9uPXNlYXJjaCZvcGVyYXRpb249QU5E[5]
This is not strictly accurate as the tunnel is nothing to do with compensation water. When the Derwent dams were constructed, the partners in the scheme were the cities of Derby Leicester and Nottingham with agreement being made for Sheffield to have a supply of ten million gallons per day. The Rivelin tunnel takes the water over to the Rivelin reservoirs whereby it was then part of the supply to the city of Sheffield.
That's a great bit of detective work, not to mention the drone footage which accompanied it. Great stuff
I have recorded a lot of water works over the course of my career, but I am a little surprised that they were still using masonry construction in 1951. I have truly enjoyed this series. Thank you.
Is the tunnel lining concrete? I thought that's what it looked like but I'm not an expert:
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Fascinating. Really enjoyed this series. I've often seen that dam as I walk from Mam Tor to Lose Hill. Never thought for one minute there would be a tunnel leading from there all the way to Ladybower. Great stuff.
It's quite unreal really isn't it? I didn't expect it to go as far as it does
Bit like Carsington, per which many folks seem to think sources much down S of, but which, actually and in fact fills, left of off, Ogston Resr at Woolley Moor, close to Ashover. Just thought I'd throw that in.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful part of the world with us. I'm in Texas, USA. I dream of traveling to far away lands. This is probably the closest I will ever get to it.
We are so blessed to have such wonderful sights right on our doorstep! Thanks for another fab video Ant! ☺️☺️
Great video and good kudos to the land owners and locals for their help
Thanks very much. I'll return in the summer too to give a little dried out comparison
That's brilliant - thanks!
Those humps on the high ground between the two spurs of Ladybower are Crook Hill and Bridge End Pasture. I was up in that area just last week looking for historic aircraft crash sites.
Thanks John. I'll have to get up there myself soon
Stunning video and well done you on solving the mystery. Great views in that area as well. That tunnel was inaugurated three months before I was born!
An excellent video Ant. Loved your drone work and the music. I look forward to a future video on the third tunnel.
Thank you David. The third tunnel... It's going to take a lot of investigation and I thought this one was difficult
Heck of a tunnel to build just to divert some water. I bet when you did your first video about Ladybower that there would be so many more! A fascinating and very enjoyable series with amazing footage. Thank you, all the best.
Thanks very much Tim. I thought there would be 3 videos. The area just keeps on giving 🙂🙂
Should see the M A S S I V E constructed pipework S of, down twixt Chatsworth and Rowsley, up t'left, in t'fields, its ALL there, tho passing by th'd never guess, today.. 💦
@@TrekkingExploration Oh dear.. Oh Dear... What do we have here? ua-cam.com/video/miQZGk7aAK0/v-deo.html
👏 Brilliant video and detective work. Love that area of the peaks. I believe the knobbly peak the other side of ladybower is crook hill.
Thanks very much Paul. That'll be a walk to do soon then 🙂🙂
FIRST CLASS PRESENTATION WITH EXCELLANT NARATION. One of your best
Another cracking video and fantastic aerial shots. The historical back stories are fascinating and must require a lot of researching so thanks for the effort you put in.
Thanks very much Charles that's very kind. I'm glad I managed to solve this one 🙂
Wow Ant this video is outstanding. The info, filming, drone work, scenery etc I could go on and on. You deserve recognition for all the research and work you put in to these videos. My heart was in my mouth at you walking up that steep narrow path. Well done. Excellent. Thank you.
Hi, I believe that the tunnel is not used at the moment for diverting water due to excessive silt build up just upstream of the River Noe abstraction weir. The weir was designed with flushing penstocks in it to allow the silt to be flushed through but it was causing major ecological/pollution issues downstream and has stopped being carried out hence the silt build up and it causing a problem with the abstraction.
I do believe that there are plans to try and take it back into use as it is impacting on the generation of hydro-electricity at Ladybower. From what you have shown it is absolutely correct that the tunnel flows parallel to the river Noe where the abstraction begins. I understand that it goes underneath another abstraction point at Jaggers Clough before continuing on to Ladybower. 👍
I do know in the last few years it has had a massive clean out because it was just a mess of silt and rubbish.
Nice one! Have you already looked at the Ashop syphon and tunnel that brings that river across into Derwent Reservoir? I've seen both ends but never fully explored it
Thank you. I've seen the discharge end behind Derwent Dam. Just shows there is so much more to do around there
Nice video Ant, well done finding out the mystery of the tunnel.
I live on the Transilvanian Plateau in central Romania and my house is 384m above mean sea level yet it lies in a valley, one side of which rises another 80m through the forest at the end of my garden area. The 1000m² plot my house is built on includes an orchard on a 45° slope leading up to a little used footpath across the ridge to a village around 6kms away. It's a beautiful area which I tell people is like Scotland but without the rain and midges! Around 50kms due south are the Făgăraș Mountains, part of the Carpathians, and the highest mountains in the country. The two highest peaks being Moldoveanu (2544m) and Negoiu (2535m). The Peak District are just a few bumps in landscape in comparison!
Actually I love the Peak District and spent a week touring with my campervan in 2003.
Brilliant again, thanks for that. The music you use is pretty fantastic too!
The scenery is just outstanding. No matter the season it looks beautiful. Great vid Ant. Keep them coming. 👍🏻
Thank you Ant for another enjoyable and informative vlog.
Thanks for all of the research that you do.
I, like many others, really enjoy your vlogs.
The mystery solved and it looks like another one to be explored, this is getting better and better👍👍 I wasn't expecting that, just imagined it would be the same as the other end, fantastic. Thanks Ant.
Another's great video Ant,very interesting subject, much more to it than first appearance,looking forward to the next installment.
Thank you for todays video. An interesting continuation of a tour about a month ago. Very picturesque and beautiful scenery. Enjoy the weekend, and see you on the next. Cheers Ant! 😊
Thanks very much Martin. You too 🤣
Beautiful landscape and interesting stories!
Beautiful images, Ant 😍😃
Fantastic and those drone spots were just beautiful. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
The dam and "reservoir" are obvious on the OS map but I've never noticed them till this video. It's amazing what I learn from this channel!
Great views as well.
Thank YOU for researching and producing yet another excellent video.
Thanks for your kind words 🙂
Fantastic video as ever..wow amazing breathtaking scenery...you really know your stuff...felt like I was walking along side you....thank u for your amazing work
This was a great video, fantastic views and an interesting little puzzle solved, well done 👍
That was very interesting well done. The scenery was fantastic too and superbly captured.
Brilliant video Ant. Can't believe you found blue sky behind you at your last words. Well done. Lol.
Great video once again
Another great vid and thanks.
Watching this in NewZealand but spent many happy days in the late 50s and throughout the 60s exploring the Peak District and now all these years later, through yours and others vids all these fascinating details that I knew nothing about.
Thanks again.
Amazing Ant, good research and fantastic drone work. Thank you and take care.
Thanks very much Christine 🙂
Superb views and superb filming.
Great video what an amazing tunnel when you think of the work that has gone into that to divert some of the water to another valley. Stunning views with the drone which really does show how far this tunnel goes. Thanks for sharing have a great week.👍
Another brilliant vid, Ant, with a little complimentary bragging for entertainment. I love it! Lady Bower has certainly been rich pickings for your adventures. Really beautiful footage. Cheers. Kimbo. 🤓👍
Another fantastic video. All aspects of your videos are perfectly formed and a brilliant watch Thank you
Thanks very much Mick much appreciated 🙂
Wow! Fascinating and great views to boot. Great bit of detective work.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you 🙂🙂
Wonderful footage! Thank you so much for making this.
Pleased you enjoyed it and thank you
The amount of work and effort you put in,is nothing short of tremendous,so again many thanks.Very historic and interesting.
Thanks Michael very kind
W😮W - Thanks for sharing Ant. I found the very same Tunnel @ Ladybower & also wondered where it went & thanks to you - I know know - beautiful landscape 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Stunning scenery and great drone flying. And a mystery solved.
One of, if not my favourite walks, starting from Mam Tor along the Ridge to Lose Hill, drop down onto the Edale Road, stop in The Cheshire Cheese Inn for a shandy to prepare me for the climb up Win Hill. Take in the fantastic views (which your camera and drone work captured brilliantly).
Then start the journey back with the decent down Win Hill, sometimes going back to Mam Tor along the road back through Hope and Castleton and walk up Winnats or the old road, or back the way I came.
Fantastic days walking.
Please keep up the fantastic videos of your trips to places I love.
I think we are blessed to live in one of the most beautiful parts of the UK.
Very very interesting....
Great bit of detective work there Ant......
Thanks very much Ant 🙂
All that area is a place I love, my playground as a young man, your vids are great mate and telling me thing I didnt know. Thank you.
Nice Work
There is only one thing I can say about this series, amazing, thank you.😀❤️
Your channel just gets better & better, as you're a pretty persistent guy & leave no stone unturned. Look forward to your explore at Castleton & the possible 3rd tunnel exit. Good stuff m8, well done. Regards...Urban Geeze.
Thanks very much indeed. I definitely have more to go back for
Interesting - i have lived in the area for 50 years and never knew it existed. Thank you.
Thanks very much for watching Angela 🙂
Another great video, Ant. Not only do you randomly find one end, but you are able to solve the mystery. They must open that sluice gate every now and then, or there would be a buildup of stagnant water. It would be great to find the date and be there for it. I bet your friendly local will know how often a year it happens. One question. Under what conditions would they open it? The Ladybower was very low previously. It wasn't open, then was it Ant? I love the presentation, the research, the oratory, the videography, and the drone footage. All top notch. You picked the same route I did up Win Hill. It wasn't until I was up therevi found out that a Bridle Path zigzags 3/4 of the way up. Looking forward to you tracking do2n the Castleton Sluice Gates and tunnel.
Howsabout when Lady b was stuffed to overflowing as in recently, they opened the wotsit and Matlock - Stan Fearns, Ashmore, etc, got stuffed/sludged again, leading to the current main town bridge resulting in main road closing to restrengthen the Hall Leys Park side, before being weshed away, and a this current rework DESPITE all the anti flooding construction a few short years ago down at Matlock Green to avert reflooding of Hall Keys Park, Causeway Lane..... 💦
From speaking with the chap from the water company I am taking a guess at this and nothing more. If LadyB is low then maybe they couldn't let any out from NetherB because likely it would be low too as they would both be suffering the same local climate conditions and I do know that they have to dhere to a very strict level of the river. That's even if it's actually used at all any more? I do live local but believe or not even the oldest farmers and locals only have scant memory and passed around stories of the dam and it's inception. I do have a poorish photo of a framed photo of its inauguration day but there's not great detail really. I have passed it on to Ant. Be well.
Great bit history of the tunnel and its path.Great aerial footage too lovely scenery and the music suits the mood of the video .
Thanks very much Stephen much appreciated
well done Ant I new you would find it
Beautiful video.
Thanks Carl 🙂
Great stuff - thanks!
Thanks very much
Thanks man. That water could generate some green energy. I ran a hydro electric power station for nine years.😊
Thanks for posting - this is my favourite place on the planet.
Thanks very much Sonia I'm pleased you enjoyed it ☺️
Love that part of the country though, great video
Many thanks for your videos
I remember the construction of the installation at Castleton. This was approx 1958 - 62. My dad had a second job driving a minibus for a local coach proprietor and he used to take some of the workers to and from their shifts. I remember that they were tunnelling under Win Hill so perhaps they were upgrading the existing tunnel or building a second one. The construction and architectural style of the installation at Castleton are quite different from what is shown here, reinforced concrete, also the water was pumped so it is not surprising that they've discontinued it.
The beauty there is stunning.
Thank you for watching 🙂
Superb work lad,thanks
Glad you enjoyed it Simon
By the way, I remember seeing the end of a diversionary leat and tunnel (marked on the 2.5 inch OS map} which comes out almost next to the dam wall at Derwent dam. Never followed it up but the tunnel is clearly marked some way along the leat and presumably it was a feeder from the river adjacent to the A57 Snake road. You may already know of this?
Was at the Derwent dam last night and water was gushing out of the outlet you describe, did wonder where it came from!
Stunning aerial photography - some of the best I've seen. That tunnel is some construction - There must have been some significant purpose to go to that extreme amount of work. Am guessing it is to protect Hope village or some other area further downstream.
Great video Ant. Love the piano music 5 minutes into the video.
Thanks very much Steve. I try to get new different music for most videos and this I particularly like
Amazing video and great detective work.
Thanks very much Richard 😀
Thanks. Very interesting👍
Thanks very much David
Have you always been interested in Ladybower (and what's beneath) or was it a new thing for you when it dried up this year, coz if so, you've got very knowledgeable very quickly!
Omg this so very interesting
Thanks June that's very kind
Now that is freaking cool good job sir I never knew that 👍🏻
Thanks very much Neil. Much appreciated 🙂🙂
Another great video
Thanks very much Phillip
I found an interesting document written by the "Wild Trout Trust" about an advisory visit to the river Noe Nether Booth Dam area. This document reported that the down stream river flow was not great enough from the 1950s to prevent the river silting up when the extraction was operating at a high capacity. It also noted that since the early 2000s the D.O.E. environment improvement policies have reduces the amount of water they allow to be extracted only to times of very high flow rates. This has apparantly allowed an improvment in the ecology of the river Noe down strean to occur. Presumably this is good for the trout fishery!
This is cool ant
I remember Win Hill before they logged it - I used to spend a lot of time in the area back then, and Win Hill was horrendously difficult to traverse up through the wood, it was like fighting your way though the jungle. Shame they didn't take out all the pine to give some native species room to grow. I've not got back much since that time, but I'm planning to start back in that direction in the next few years. Amazing views with the fog by the way. You can actually see the course it follows all the way to the railway on the satellite imagery, not sure if you noticed by the way - takes a turn to the right about 350 meters in then hits the railway just under 900 meters later where it is almost directly on course for the outlet at Ladybower.
Ant, liked the way you rhymed "Mystery" with "History." Going from the portal to Neither Booth must have been a fun walk/hike, wish I was also there to enjoy it. "Back to work, will finish watching after work.........................
Top video Ant and looks like a lonely place?
Ohhh feet and inches please 😂😂
Like your audio choices, really dramatizes this beautiful part of England. Good job
great bit of detecting ant
Thank you I'm glad I managed to solve it
I noticed in the historical photos in one of your previous videos that the narrow guage metal tie track was being covered by the ballast gravel and the standard guage rail line was laid over it. I wonder if there is more narrow guage still there just under the surface.
You picked a good day to walk Ant.
Thanks it turned out rather nice
I was on that footbridge to photograph the 68 on the TPE training run recently and never even knew that dam existed! Must have a gander next time I'm up there.
I hope you got a good photo too 🙂
Great piece of detective work and splendid views of the landscape. Do we know the purpose of that brick building adjacent to the tunnel exit at Ladybower?
Thanks.👍
Thanks for watching
great video amazing u find these things. What is the second song that you used?
Hi Paul it's Utopia by Scott Buckley
Thank you for solving the mystery. Been looking forward to this for a week or two now. Absolutely stunning scenery and a lot of memories of family holidays in the Peak District as a child.
I wonder if you could help me here, when I was in the Air training Corp around 1980 we spent along weekend in the peaks. I remember our flight Sargent taking us for a March over kinder scout to a plane wreck? Now I was only 12/13 years old and my memories not so good but do you know anything about it?
Loving your videos just wish my knees were good enough to be able to walk long distances again.
Search UA-cam for "peak district b-29" there are a few videos about it.
@@barrieshepherd7694 Thank you 🙏
Interesting to see who was having to suffer the smoke from the cement works and how it had clung to the ground spilling into the valleys.
Absolutely brilliant video!
You're much better than Tony Robinson!
Ha, I love the sense of humour of the people who were naming things in Olde England. Noe Hope indeed!
Ha ha ha I like that 😂😂
Great video yet again 👍
One of the things which intrigues me watching that are the names Win Hill and Lose Hill 🤔 There has to be a story behind that! Anyone know?
One legend is there was a battle many centuries ago. The two sides later stopped fighting, the loser's on one hill, the victorious on the other
Excellent - thankyou so much. Good luck finding the third tunnel 😊