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Windermere or Lake Windermere [a] is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District. [5] It is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, but considerably smaller than the largest Scottish lochs and Northern Irish loughs. The lake is about 11 miles (18 km) in length and 1 mile (1.6 km) at its widest, has a ...
This list is restricted to open bodies of fresh-water over 5 ha in area, because of the difficulty in establishing what is a pond and what is a lake.. It excludes service reservoirs used within the water supply network for the storage of drinking water and excludes water bodies on industrial sites used exclusively for industrial purposes (works ponds).
This table includes the ten largest fresh water bodies by area. Lough Neagh is the largest water body in the UK by this measure, although Loch Ness is the largest by volume and contains nearly double the amount of water in all the lakes of England and Wales combined. [1] Loch Morar is the deepest of the UK's lakes and Loch Awe the longest.
The Lake District is a major sanctuary for the red squirrel and has the largest population in England (out of the estimated 140,000 red squirrels in the United Kingdom, compared with about 2.5 million grey squirrels). [41] The Lake District is home to a range of bird species, [42] and the RSPB maintain a reserve in Haweswater. [43]
The Loe (Cornish: An Logh), also known as Loe Pool, is the largest natural freshwater lake (50 hectares (120 acres)) in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The earliest recorded appearance of this simple name form was in 1337, when it was called "La Loo", [1] but is mentioned as 'the lake' in 1302; [2] Situated between Porthleven and Gunwalloe and downstream of Helston, it is separated from Mount's Bay ...
Longest river entirely within England is the River Thames. 346 km (215 mi) Largest lake: Windermere 14.73 km 2 (5.69 sq mi) Climate: Oceanic "British" climate with small areas of Subarctic climate: Terrain: Mostly low hills and plains, especially in the south, Midlands and east. Upland or mountainous terrain prevails in the north and parts of ...
Aqualate Mere, in Staffordshire, is the largest natural lake in the English Midlands and is managed as a national nature reserve (NNR) by Natural England. [1]The Mere lies within the borough of Stafford in Staffordshire, England, some 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east [1] of the market town of Newport, Shropshire.
Ambleside is a town and former civil parish (now in the parish of Lakes) in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Westmorland and located in the Lake District National Park, the town sits at the head of Windermere, England's largest natural lake. In 2020 it had an estimated ...