A village which was deliberately flooded to make a reservoir has re-emerged due to lack of rain fall. Mardale village in the ...

When the Haweswater Dam was built, it raised the water level by 95ft and could hold 84 billion litres of water. The dam created a reservoir four miles long and around half a mile wide.

VICTORIA ELLIS puts on her boots for this week’s walk after man flu fells this column’s usual incumbent. IT SEEMS likely that the prospect of minding cats, chickens and a house in the Lake ...

Open Book's summer series on Literary Landscapes begins at the Haweswater Dam, with only a waist high wall separating presenter Mariella Frostrup from 80 billion litres of water, which is what ...

When the conditions are right, the remains of a village lost to supply Manchester with water reappears. During particular hot spells, the 'drowned' village of Mardale Green surfaces from its ...

Work started on the aqueduct in 1929 in tandem with work on the Haweswater Dam and caused great controversy at the time as it required the flooding of farming villages in the valley of Mardale.

It has a lot of interesting history, too. The building of the reservoir caused some controversy – as when the Haweswater dam was built in 1929, it completely flooded the village of Mardale.

Available until 17 June, 2015. Sarah Hall is Open Book's literary guide to Haweswater Dam. Hall was born nearby, and her award-winning first novel Haweswater provides a fictional account of the ...

A lot of people who drink the water come to walk round Haweswater, and so to avoid the mid-August rush I arrived in good time at Burnbanks, a village of iron-framed houses built near the dam for ...

Mike Crees Reservoir visitor Mike Crees said the area was as "dry as a bone" The Haweswater Dam was considered to be an engineering feat at the time. Construction started in 1929, but was ...