Redmires Reservoirs are a series of three reservoirs less than 10 miles away from the centre of Sheffield built between 1833 & 1854.
Despite their proximity to Sheffield, the reservoirs are situated in stunning open moorland. The surrounding landscape to the south is a Site of Special Scientific...
Ive been here more times than I can remember but never got round to making any sort of report on it. Was in the area today so I thought I may aswell get off my arse and do a report.
Starting my explore off by getting into the spillway someway downstream not far from a first short culvert under...
1. The History
The Redmires Reservoirs are a group of three reservoirs in Fulwood, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They are fed from various small streams rising from the Hallam Moors by including Fairthorn Clough. The three reservoirs are named Upper, Middle and Lower and date back to 1836...
History
The Redmires Reservoirs are a group of three reservoirs in Fulwood, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They are fed from the Hallam Moors by various small streams including Fairthorn Clough. The three reservoirs are named Upper, Middle and Lower and date from 1836 and were built to...
Every plughole is a goal, so they say. Today’s plughole was going to be a different one to this. It was overflowing though, despite being a foot under overflow level on Tuesday when I scoped it out. I had read @Torchlight 's report with interest and after a series of fails on my home ground...
Hi this is my first report so I have chosen a site I ,am familiar with and has easy access to enable me to use this report as a learning curve. The site is Redmires Reservoirs plughole just on the western side of Sheffield
The three reservoirs are known as the lower middle and upper dams, the...
Date: March 2012
Location: Fulwood, Sheffield
Explored by: Toxic1889, Beanie, Bread Man, Drainwedger and Agent-A
After seeing a few pictures of this place, we decided to go take a look for ourselves, the plughole aka "Wassoooo" !
The view from the top.
Entrance to the tunnel...
Scammonden Reservoir/Dam, Plughole Abseil
Twice visited here in the past 18 months, originally with Stepping Lightly and today with Ninjaboy..
We originally went for a recce back in May last year, late one night SL decided he would check out the plughole ready for a return visit (which we...
Redmires Top Dam Bellmouth Overflow
Inspected by WB & Ludo Finster, free of charge. :thumb
Inspired by Stepping Lightly's "Inspection" of Greenbooth with Ojay, I thought it right to inspect my local overflow...
I had seen this one before, but had no idea how deep it went or where the outfall...