Stone Beck Secret Traditional Cache
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A small cache with log and pencil and not much room for anything else - unlike the other nearby caches.
It is an easy walk or bike ride of about 2½ miles from the car park, mainly on a narrow tarmaced road with no traffic.
If you go anti-clockwise round Angram and approach from NIDDIN it will be rather boggy.
'Stone Beck' rises a few hundred metres below the summit of Great Whernside and is a major contributor to Angram Reservoir.
Bradford was a fast-growing city in the Victorian era. Its mills and its people needed ever more water. So in 1892 Parliamentary powers were obtained to intercept the waters of the River Nidd and River Stone 40 miles away, and the following year work began on Gouthwaite compensation reservoir and in 1894 on the temporary Haden Carr reservoir.
At the same time a 32-mile conduit was built from Haden Carr to Chellow Heights treatment works in Bradford. It was a massive undertaking, with a dozen miles of aqueduct to cut and cover, 15 miles of steel and cast-iron pipes to lay and six miles of branch feeder pipes.
The aqueduct tunnel was run through Greenhow Hill, which for many years had been used for lead mining. It was partly constructed using some of the old mine shafts 300ft deep into the hillside as access points.
Next reservoir to be constructed was Angram where on July 14, 1904 the first sod was cut during a ceremony attended by 150 officials of Bradford Corporation and City Council and the Mayors of Halifax and Pudsey.
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