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West End

Thruscross Reservoir, North Yorkshire

A Dales village drowned in 1966, which rises again in droughts.

West End was a village in the Washburn valley with a mill, a chapel and farms. In 1966 it was flooded to create Thruscross Reservoir, supplying water to Leeds.

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When
Flooded 1966
Where
54.0200, -1.8000
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

A car park at the dam gives views across the reservoir.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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