Up in Weardale, around 3.5 km north of the village of Wolsingham, Co Durham, is Tunstall Reservoir.
Originally built as a water supply reservoir for the Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Company, between 1873 and 1879 by the 19th century water engineer Thomas Hawksley.
These days the reservoir is soley used to maintain minimum regulatory flows on the River Wear, supporting of water abstractions further downstream, at Chester-le-Street.
There is car parking and a popular picnic spot available half way along the west side of the reservoir and if you're wanting to stretch your legs, you can do a complete circuit with an interesting section through the woods to the left in this view.
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