The Yorkshire Dales are hugely popular for hikers and adventurers – but did you know that several uninhabited parts of the countryside used to be bustling with villagers as recently as 100 years ago?
If you’ve ever gone for a walk around the Scar House Reservoir you may have noticed some small huts and concrete foundations carved into the ground.
And while those ruins may look primitive, just a century ago the lost village of Scar was inhabited by more than 2,000 workers eagerly going about their work building the Nidd Valley dam.
The Yorkshire Live says Scar was built as a temporary village in 1921 when Bradford's chief engineer Lewis Mitchell began the project to secure the city's water supply, and over the next 15 years, the village grew into a complete settlement with hostels, bungalows, houses, and even its own football club.
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For a workman in Yorkshire at the time, there was no better place to live - residents had hot water, lights and flushing toilets, unlike many of the surrounding villages in the area.
But in 1936, the dam project was completed and there was no longer a need for the workers to stay there, and so it was sold within two days and taken apart.
The only structure standing to this day is the old projection room - though the village hall it was once attached to was moved to the nearby hamlet of Darley where it can still be seen.
And Scar isn’t the only abandoned village in the Nidd Valley.
On the edge of the valley are the crumbling ruins of five stone houses that formed part of a village named Lodge, which was set up as a farming community in the 16th century and remained a small village until the 1920s.
The village was bought out by engineers building the reservoir for Bradford, who were concerned the villagers might contaminate the water supply.
Lodge’s last villager left in 1929, and the village has remained abandoned ever since.
The amazing ruins of both lost settlements are visible on walks around Scar House Reservoir, which can be accessed by a nearby car park.
