Upper Rivington Reservoir is situated centrally in the
Rivington chain of
reservoirs, on the
West Pennine Moors in
Lancashire, England between Rivington and
Anglezarke. The engineer for the Rivington reservoirs was
Thomas Hawksley and construction took place between 1852 and 1857. The two dams of the Upper Rivington reservoir are the 267 metre Horrobin Embankment that separates it from the lower reservoir and carries a road into the village from the west, and the 332 metre long, 12.2 metre high Yarrow Embankment.