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The list of lakes, lochs, loughs and llyns of the United Kingdom is a link page for some large lakes of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), including lochs fully enclosed by land. Lakes in Scotland are called lochs, and in Northern Ireland loughs (pronounced the same way, i.e. (/lɒç/)). In Wales a lake is ...
Lough is the name given to many lakes in the far north of England in the counties of Northumberland and Cumbria they are often located near the Whin Sill escarpment on which Hadrian's Wall runs. In northern England the word lough in this context is usually pronounced as 'loff'.
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).
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Pages in category "Lists of lakes of the United Kingdom" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... List of loughs of Ireland; S.
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List of lakes of England; List of loughs of England; L. List of lakes of the Lake District This page was last edited on 28 June 2015, at 02:45 (UTC). Text ...
The word lough is pronounced like loch (/ l ɒ k, l ɒ x /) and comes from the Irish loch, meaning lake. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there are an estimated 12,000 lakes in the Republic of Ireland, covering an area of more than 1,200 square kilometres. [1] The largest lough, by area, in Ireland is Lough Neagh.