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Burnbanks was built as a model village in the late 1920s by Manchester Corporation to house workers on the Haweswater reservoir construction project. The information board explains that this was a self-contained community with shop, dispensary, mission, dance hall and an expanded school at Bampton, the nearest village. The dam was completed in 1940 and supplies Manchester with water flowing under gravity via a 100 mile long aqueduct.
The sign indicates the fellside track along the lake to Mardale Head.