Damflask reservoir was completed in 1896, initially as a compensation reservoir. The name is taken from the village at the eastern end of the reservoir which was abandoned and flooded. This polygon covers the site of the village which contained a number of water powered mills. The village suffered heavy damage during the Great Sheffield flood in1864 and was never rebuilt because plans existed to construct Damflask Reservoir. Prior to the village the land was probably used as meadows. Legibility of the previous landscape is invisible.