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Bay at Millfields, southern end of Carsington Water reservoir
Bay at Millfields, southern end of Carsington Water reservoir. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Bay at Millfields, southern end of Carsington Water reservoir
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Reviewed
- Josh Wildman
BEFORE THE WATER
Carsington Water
A reservoir created for water supply, then learned as a new sailing landscape.
Scroll to read the water through time
Carsington is not an ancient lake.
The reservoir occupies a Derbyshire valley whose fields and routes had a history before water supply created a new shoreline.
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1992
A valley becomes a reservoir
Construction was completed and Carsington Water opened to the public in 1992.
Sailing therefore began with an abrupt geographical change that local people could remember.
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1990–1992
Access is designed in
Carsington Sailing Club was incorporated while the reservoir was being completed.
Slipways, jetties and safety cover made the new water usable as a managed sporting venue from its early years.
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Sailing Club at Carsington Water
Sailing Club at Carsington Water. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Sailing Club at Carsington Water
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Reviewed
- Josh Wildman
THE CLUB COURSE
Many fleets share one sheet of water
Cruisers, keelboats, catamarans and dinghies use the same reservoir through separate fleets and start lines.
The course is remade for each wind rather than inherited from a natural channel.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Carsington Water is recorded at 53.050° N, 1.630° W as an inland venue. A course drawn here is temporary: wind, current, shore and marks determine the water that sailors actually meet.
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Bay at Millfields, southern end of Carsington Water reservoir
Bay at Millfields, southern end of Carsington Water reservoir. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Bay at Millfields, southern end of Carsington Water reservoir
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Reviewed
- Josh Wildman
TODAY
Water supply and recreation coexist
Carsington remains an operational reservoir as well as a sailing centre, visitor landscape and wildlife site.
The modern place is defined by those uses being managed together.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Bay at Millfields, southern end of Carsington Water reservoir
AOD.UK.CARSINGTON-WATER.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sailing Club at Carsington Water
AOD.UK.CARSINGTON-WATER.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Editorial record
Full UK edition. Historical claims are linked to the local, public and sporting records used to write the exhibition. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.