Bartley Reservoir

Bartley Reservoir is a reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England. It covers 460,000 square metres. It is known as the place where Bill Oddie did much of his early birdwatching, and features in his books (notably Bill Oddie's Gone Birding) and television programmes. His first ever published article, for the West Midland Bird Club's annual report, was about the birds of the reservoir. Most of the land occupied by Bartley Reservoir was in the parish of Northfield, originally in Worcestershire. It was transferred to Warwickshire when Northfield became part of Birmingham in November, 1911, and thus became part of the West Midlands county on the latter's creation in 1974. However, the south-west end of the reservoir overlapped into...