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The lake extended to thirty-two acres, and once incorporated a swimming-pool. Skiffs were available for hire, such as the one to the left of the picture.

Bold Venture Park is a disused quarry, with a lake and a picturesque waterfall.Whitehall Park has always been noted for its floral displays, and the rhododendrons make a great show in the late Spring

Strete stands on the winding lanes which form the highway between Dartmouth and the villages clustered around the great freshwater lake of Slapton Ley.

Occupied by the Rous and later Brain families, much of what we view here beyond the artificial lakes is the architectural additions of c1850-60.

The Langdale Pikes are among the Lake District's most popular and recognisable hills.

Unexpected fissures in the reservoir bed meant that the lake was not satisfactorily filled until 1886. 4,000 trout were placed in Cowm and Spring Mill reservoirs in 1887.

There was parkland on the estate by 1795, which by 1813 contained three lakes.

In 1769 the original village church was submerged so that the powerful landowner could construct a lake in front of his home.

To the left of the picture are the grounds of the Staff College; they were fully open to the public, who could enjoy the fine walks and sit by the lakes.

The glen was purchased by the IOMR in the 1930s, who added a boating lake, bowling greens and children's play area.

There are swimming-baths and assembly-rooms, and a People's Palace … There is a large pier, a tramway, and a kind of Rosherville Garden with a lake for boating.'

The Langdale Pikes are among the Lake District's most popular and recognizable hills.

Strete stands on the winding lanes which form the highway between Dartmouth and the villages clustered around the great freshwater lake of Slapton Ley.

The former tidal basin is now a fresh water lake. A waterbus (centre) enables exploration of its eight-mile waterfront.

One of the most attractive features of Astle Park was the lake, now almost silted up.

A turning to the A35 is opposite it, and here we find Leominstead Lakes, where trout fishing is available daily.

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period. It was later used as a duck decoy. The ducks were drawn into the decoy by the decoy man's dog.

Situated in the Aldershot Park estate (bought by the council in 1920 for £21,000), it was originally a lake; it was drained, and dressing rooms and lawns were added, costing £20,000.

Set back from the A66, the King's Arms with its stables and courtyard to the rear was once a coaching- house serving travellers on the Penrith to Darlington turnpike, a route linking the Lakes

The south front faces a lake made by damming a chalk stream. Lowndes' house is the central five bays only; the outer bays were added around 1800 as were the service ranges.

The water splash is the weir which dams the park lake in which fishermen cast flies for trout.

Sailing was one of the favourite pastimes of the wealthy late 19th-century 'off-comers' who built houses close to the shore of the lake. The club was formed in 1860 as the Windermere Sailing Club.

Circling the lake, which is nearly a third of a mile long and 200 yards wide in places, is a miniature railway. It deviates briefly into the parkland, as shown in this view.

This view shows the new Maternity Unit, which opened in 1961 on a site off Cottingham Road, opposite the boating lake. A