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It shows the last of the original two lakes—Leathe's Water and Wythburn Water—which formerly filled the valley below Helvellyn; they were later joined and became the Thirlmere Reservoir, when Manchester

This spacious town lies at the head of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales, with a narrow-gauge railway running along its south-eastern shore.

Nash surrounded it with grand terraces of houses and laid out the bones of the park, including the lake. This view looks into the lake's north-west arm.

The Marine Lake covered what had been fifty acres of wet sand, which was one of the favourite haunts of sand yacht enthusiasts.

The Marine Lake covered what had been fifty acres of wet sand, which was one of the favourite haunts of sand yacht enthusiasts.

Dorothy Wordsworth described the visit she made with her poet brother to the loch: 'We came up to that little lake, and saw it before us in its true shape in the cheerful sunshine.

The loch, which is ringed with hills, features in Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

This boathouse in the Swiss Chalet style was once one of three boathouses at Longford's Lake.

It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.

It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.

Muckross Lake and Lough Leane are separated by Muckross Desmesne and Dinish Island. The island and the Desmesne are connected by Brickeen Bridge, a handsome stone bridge with a pointed arch.

In the foreground a proud father and his children enjoy the boating lake.

The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children's amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.

The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.

The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.

The lake was created in the mid-18th century by damming the little river Len, which flows into the Medway near the Archbishop's Palace. Maidstone Leisure Centre is situated in Mote Park.

The Meare was a three feet deep lake, actually formed by accident when the Hundred River flooded. Estate owner Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie decided to keep it, building his holiday village around it.

A rowing boat is drawn up in the foreground, and a group of people linger by the edge of the lake.

The tunnel is beneath Cromaglan mountain, near the shore of the Upper Lake.

This was originally the Deputy Rangers Lodge, once lived in by Thomas Sandby, who designed the Virginia Water Lake.

Another view of Waterhead shows the Waterhead Hotel, built to serve the increasing numbers of tourists who were arriving by train at the lakeside station at Bowness, and catching a steamer up the lake

This simple stone obelisk on the summit of Friar's Crag, Derwent Water, commemorates the great Victorian critic and Lake District conservationist John Ruskin, whose early memory was apparently being taken

Buttermere takes its name from Old English, and means 'the lake by the dairy pastures' - where the butter is made. The farmstead of High Stile is still in the same business a thousand years later.

An extraordinary view: for instead of the great chateau by the French architect, Destailleur, Frith's photographer chose to photograph the lake down by the home farm whose granary can be see out on the