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Baitings Reservoir is a large water supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden in the West Yorkshire Pennines, England. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn and is the higher of two reservoirs built to supply Wakefield with water and was completed in 1956.Baitings Reservoir, Yorkshire Water. Retrieved 24 February 2009.
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Wakefield Corporation Waterworks started impounding the valley of the River Ryburn in the 1930s, with Ryburn Reservoir being completed in 1933. Construction on Baitings took place 20 years later with completion in 1956. The reservoir takes the name of the hamlet that was flooded under the new dam. The hamlet of Baitings, whose name derives from the Old Norse of Beit (pasture) and Eng (meadow), was on an old road linking Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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The bridge on the B6113, Elland Road, in Ripponden was once part of the Elland Turnpike in 1815. It was originally built in 1772 and widened and altered in the nineteenth century. Next to this bridge is the original Ripponden Old Bridge which has been around since at least 1313. Baitings and Ryburn reservoirs were built for Wakefield Corporation.
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Baitings was opened on 14 November 1956 after eight years' work and a cost of £1.4 million. It is 64 acres large with a volume of 775 million gallons, reaching a depth of . The dam at the east end of the reservoir is across and high. At low water levels, the old road and bridge become visible.
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Ryburn Reservoir is a supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden in the Yorkshire Pennines, England. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn and is the lower of two reservoirs built in the valley to supply Wakefield with water and was completed in 1933. The upper reservoir is Baitings Reservoir. Ryburn reservoir is the earlier of the two reservoirs.
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A tunnel connects reservoirs in valleys to the north with Baitings to allow for the transfer of water. Manshead Tunnel is long and was opened in 1962. In 1989, the body of a man was found at the bottom of the reservoir during a period of dry weather, when the water was shallower than normal. He had been murdered and his body was weighted down with a pick axe.
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The river becomes known as Ryburn at the confluence of a small unnamed stream and Black Castle Clough to the east of Blackstone Edge Reservoir. It flows east parallel to the A58 Rochdale Road into Baitings reservoir. It emerges from the east end of the reservoir for a short time before flowing into Ryburn Reservoir. The river flows out of the east end of the reservoir just to the north of the village of Rishworth, before turning north east and flowing through Ripponden.
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After this, it heads south past Hebden Bridge and then by Withens Clough, Baitings, Dean Head and Cupwith reservoirs. After Marsden, the walk goes past Butterley, Blakeley, Wessenden and Wessenden Head reservoirs, before crossing the A635 road and going inbetween Bilberry and Digley Reservoirs. At Holme, the trail goes past Brownhills and Ramsden Reservoir before heading into South Yorkshire in south westerly direction past Harden and Winscar Reservoirs. At Dunford Bridge, the trail goes due east and then south to finish at Langsett Reservoir.
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