Thirlmere Aqueduct

The Thirlmere Aqueduct is a 95.9-mile-long (154.3-kilometre-long) water supply system built to carry water from Thirlmere Reservoir to Manchester. (See Thirlmere Aqueduct)

Relation: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7937446 (incomplete)

The relation is made up of ways with the followings tags:

Underground sections:

• man_made=pipeline
• location=underground
• substance=water
• name=Thirlmere Aqueduct

Pipe bridges:

• man_made=pipeline
• location=bridge
• substance=water
• name=Thirlmere Aqueduct
• bridge=aqueduct
• layer=*
• optional: count=* (the number of parallel pipes the aqueduct is split into to cross the river)
• optional: man_made=bridge the bridge area with local name of bridge (if any) in name=*

Further details about the aqueduct as a whole are included in the tags for the relation.

It can be traced from the "NLS - OS 1:25k 1st Series 1937-61" layer available in JOSM (or set custom background to https://geo.nls.uk/mapdata2/os/25000/{zoom}/{x}/{-y}.png in iD) where it is shown as a dashed line. There are also above-ground features such as valves, pipe bridges, siphon wells and aqueduct gates which can be identified on satellite imagery and/or in a survey.

Status: Completed from Thirlmere to Quernmore (71km, 46%)