[1] Linacre Lower Reservoir (storage capacity of 140 million litres, 9m deep) was built in 1855 following an Act of Parliament granting permission for its construction to supply drinking water to Chesterfield.

[3] There is a public car park on the edge of the woods to the north of the Lower Reservoir.

The woods around the reservoirs contain oak, beech, alder, larch and pine trees.

The woods are habitat for nuthatches, flycatchers and woodpeckers, whilst kingfishers and mandarin ducks live around the water's edge.

[3][4] The earthwork remains of the 16th-century lead smelt mill in Linacre Wood (160m east of the Lower Reservoir) is a protected Scheduled monument.