Charnwood Water
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
Charnwood Water can be found on Tuckers Road, off Beeches Road, which is a turning off Leicester Road to the South of Loughborough town centre.
The site has both a car park and disabled toilets.
Bus times for Loughborough available on bustimes.org.
- Reservoir
- Public access
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Charnwood Water, a former claypit which has been filled in to form a man-made reservoir, covers an area of 27.12 acres. The lake is surrounded by trees and a circular footpath, and is used mainly for leisure purposes by the general public.
Interestingly. the site was formerly the old Tuckers brickworks, which supplied bricks for St. Pancras Station in London.
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