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{{Short description| Reservoir in West Yorkshire, England}}
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| name               = Deanhead Reservoir
| image              = Deanhead Reservoir.jpg
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| alt                = Picture of Deanhead Reservoir with snow on the surrounding hills
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|pushpin_map=West Yorkshire
| pushpin_map_alt    = Relief map of West Yorkshire
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| location           = [[Kirklees]], [[West Yorkshire]]
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| basin_countries    = United Kingdom
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| area               = {{convert|6.7|ha}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Deanhead Reservoir |url=http://www.britishlakes.info/31297-deanhead-reservoir-west-yorkshire |website=British Lakes |accessdate=22 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820173348/http://www.britishlakes.info/31297-deanhead-reservoir-west-yorkshire |archive-date=20 August 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| elevation          = {{convert|988|ft}}
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{{Infobox UK legislation
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Deanhead Reservoir Act 1838}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act for making and maintaining a Reservoir at Deanhead in the Parish of Huddersfield in the West Riding of the County of York, and for other Purposes relating thereto.
| year                  = 1838
| citation              = [[1 & 2 Vict.]] c. lxiv
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| royal_assent          = 4 July 1838
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| amends                = 
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| amendments            = 
| repealing_legislation = [[Huddersfield Corporation Act 1913]]
| related_legislation   = 
| status                = repealed
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| theyworkforyou        = 
| millbankhansard       = 
| original_text         = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/1-2/64/pdfs/ukla_18380064_en.pdf
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{{Infobox UK legislation
| short_title           = {{visible anchor|Deanhead Commissioners Act 1889}}
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to empower the Commissioners of the Deanhead Reservoir to execute Works and supply Water in bulk and for other purposes.
| year                  = 1889
| citation              = [[52 & 53 Vict.]] c. xxi
| introduced_commons    = 
| introduced_lords      = 
| territorial_extent    = 
| royal_assent          = 31 May 1889
| commencement          = 
| expiry_date           = 
| repeal_date           = 
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| replaces              = 
| amendments            = 
| repealing_legislation = [[Huddersfield Corporation Act 1913]]
| related_legislation   = 
| status                = repealed
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| theyworkforyou        = 
| millbankhansard       = 
| original_text         = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/52-53/21/pdfs/ukla_18890021_en.pdf
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'''Deanhead Reservoir''' is a [[reservoir]] near [[Scammonden]], in the metropolitan district of [[Kirklees]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]].

It is named after Dean Head, a village that was mostly submerged during construction of the dam. Construction started in 1838 and it opened a year later, almost 140 years before [[Scammonden Reservoir]] (its downstream neighbour) was opened in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Huddersfield Water Supplies (1939) – Chapter V |url=https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/History_of_the_Huddersfield_Water_Supplies_(1939)_-_Chapter_5 |website=Huddersfield Exposed |accessdate=22 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820032451/https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/History_of_the_Huddersfield_Water_Supplies_(1939)_-_Chapter_5 |archive-date=20 August 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Scammonden Dam |url=http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=1142 |website=Engineering Timelines |accessdate=22 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307231556/http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=1142 |archive-date=7 March 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Water flowing out of Deanhead forms Black Burne Brook which now feeds into Scammonden Water.<ref>{{cite news |title=Teeter around the edge of Scammonden Reservoir |url=http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/lifestyle/lifestyle-leisure/teeter-around-the-edge-of-scammonden-reservoir-1-7333679 |accessdate=22 July 2016 |work=Halifax Courier |date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822081613/http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/lifestyle/lifestyle-leisure/teeter-around-the-edge-of-scammonden-reservoir-1-7333679 |archive-date=22 August 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Deanhead reservoir was originally constructed to supply water to the factories in the Blackburn Valley that was downstream of the reservoir.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gibson |first1=Mel |title=Into a secret valley; Cycle ride The Blackburn Valley and Scammonden |journal=The Huddersfield Daily Examiner |date=16 August 2008 |page=12 |issn=0962-1644}}</ref> During the 1995 [[drought]], the outlines of foundations of buildings in the village were visible.

Deanhead also is the name of a Pennine pass to the south of the reservoir, which carries the [[A640 road|A640]] from Huddersfield to Denshaw, following the course of a [[Roman roads in Britain|Roman road]].

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{{Reservoirs in Yorkshire}}


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[[Category:Reservoirs in West Yorkshire]]


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