Set in the splendid Pennine Hills above Delph village a circular walk around the reservoir could reap rewards of sightings of geese, herons, dippers, cormorants and hawks amongst other birds. The area is steeped in history with evidence of iron smelting from the Middle Ages and the remaining ruins of a Roman fort. Erected between AD77 to AD83 Rigodunum, as it was known, was a stopping place between Mancunium (Manchester) and Eboracum (York). The ghost of a mounted Roman soldier was spotted during the 1960s.