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View across Knypersley Reservoir with trees lining the shore in Greenway Bank Country Park, Staffordshire
Knypersley Reservoir · Photo: Stephen Craven

Knypersley Reservoir, also called Knypersley Pool, sits in Greenway Bank Country Park near Biddulph in Staffordshire. Built in the late 1820s to feed the Caldon Canal, it is the only reservoir on the course of the River Trent, and today its wooded shores make a pleasant setting for a walk. The two routes below both start at the same point and take in the water, the surrounding woodland and the Warders Tower folly.

The shorter walk is a gentle circuit of the reservoir, with information boards about the Greenway Bank Heritage Trail and the old Knypersley Hall estate along the way. The longer walk adds some higher ground to the east, with several moderate climbs, Marshes Hill Common Local Nature Reserve and the village of Brown Edge, where there is a pub close to the route. It returns past a canal feeder channel to the country park.

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Knypersley Reservoir walk 01

Knypersley Reservoir Short Walk

Walk distance
2 miles
Time
1 hour
Route type
Circular

A short, easy-going circuit of Knypersley Reservoir, also known as Knypersley Pool, in Greenway Bank Country Park. The water is close at hand for almost the whole way and much of the walk is shaded by woodland, with only gentle ups and downs.

You start by an information board for the Greenway Bank Heritage Trail, with the Greenway Bank Grotto folly a little way off the path early on. Beyond the reservoir you pass the Knypersley Hall Estate board and Warders Tower, a folly dating from 1828, then the Head of Trent stream that feeds the pool, before finishing along Greenway Bank.

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Knypersley Reservoir walk 02

Knypersley Reservoir and Brown Edge Walk

Walk distance
5 miles
Time
2.5 hours
Route type
Circular

A longer, more varied walk that begins by the wooded shore of Knypersley Reservoir (Knypersley Pool) and passes Warders Tower, a folly built in 1828, before leaving the country park for open country to the east.

There are several moderate climbs as you cross farmland and quiet lanes, passing the Head of Trent stream and reaching Marshes Hill Common Local Nature Reserve. The route then runs through Brown Edge, where The Top pub is a short detour off the line of the walk, and St Anne's church lies close by.

The return takes you past a canal feeder channel and back along Greenway Bank, so you finish among the trees again.

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Expanded route map for Knypersley Reservoir Short Walk, a 2 mile circular walk in Staffordshire