Around Tittesworth Water
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"Reservoir biodiversity provides drinking water for the Potteries and a valuable habitat for wildlife."
Walk directions
Facing the entrance to the Visitor Centre cross the car park to your left and follow a path signed ‘Waymarked Walks’. Bend left at an early junction then pass the main car park and a play area. Ignore side paths on a twisty section to pass an engineered ‘log jam’ then cross two bridges. Fork right from the main trail to take the ‘Water’s edge path’. Ignore all side turns along this, bending left at a small headland and past some woodland. Now bend left into the woods and fork right at a track junction to rejoin the ‘Long Trail’ (unsigned).
Follow the Long Trail through the wood, crossing two small bridges. As the path leaves the wood fork right on to a grassy track, again signed ‘Water’s edge path’.
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Additional information
Terrain
- Good well-made footpaths, forest tracks and roads
Landscape
- Reservoir and woodland
Dog friendliness
- On lead at all times and under control
Parking
- Tittesworth Water Visitor Centre
Toilets en route
- At Tittesworth Water Visitor Centre
About the walk
Tittesworth Water and dam were built in 1858 to collect water from the River Churnet and provide a reliable water supply to Leek’s thriving textile and cloth-dying industry. By 1963 work to increase its size had been completed, and local farmland was flooded to create a reservoir capable of...
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About the area
Staffordshire features lofty moors, deep dales and tremendous views of both. Further south are the six sprawling towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent, which historically have had such an impact on Staffordshire’s fortunes, not to mention its culture and countryside.
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