Facilities

Camping facilities have been fitted in a barn on site to an excellent standard. These include a shower room, a separate toilet and washroom. A kitchen/diner with an electric cooker, microwave, fridge freezer and washing machine.

There are two picnic tables by the lake for anglers to share. One between swims 1 and 2, the other between swims 5, 6 and 7.

There is a fully renovated, self-contained holiday cottage on site. It has a kitchen/diner with wood burner, free standing gas cooker and fridge with ice box. A downstairs shower room and a separate toilet with sink. A sofa that can adapt to a double bed. Upstairs there are 2 bedrooms (2 single beds in each bedroom) with electric radiators. Plus an English sky free view TV & radio, and Playstation 2 for DVD's, CD's and games.

On-site Shop

There is a small shop on site where bait and tackle can be purchased. Fishing tackle can be hired including bedchairs and bivvies. Rods and reels for carp and cat fishing are also available.

Baits available on site if required: Boilies, Pop Ups, Bait Dips, Various Pellets, Prepared Tiger Nuts, Crushed Tiger Nuts, Hemp, Crushed Hemp, Maize, Sweetcorn, Method Mix, Ground Baits.

Lake

The lake is over 4.5 acre’s with an island full of trees and reeds. Around the margins there are trees and reeds with flat grass banks. This lake is fed by 4 different springs of which 2 are constant all year around. These keep filling the lake with fresh water all of the time. The main source comes in by the bridge. There is also a source on the island which has a little pond with stones around the edge, where the ladies of the village used to wash their clothes. I have heard stories that this pond on the island used to be a hot spring and in winter there would be steam coming off it. Around the margins the depths are about 2 feet gradually deepening to an average of around 3 to 4 feet. It is quite a uniformed lake bed that bowls off deeper towards the middle. Towards the dam wall it reaches a depth of around 9 feet.

In October 2005 I drained the lake down and took out all the trees that had fallen in and cut back all the tree roots to make it as snag free as possible. I also removed sharp rocks to prevent the fish from damaging themselves. As the water level was dropping I could see bloodworm beds from the margins to about 7 metres out. The lake bottom is made up of a clean course granite sand, blue clay around some margins, silt in some areas mainly the middle and deeper areas and a spongy peat substance near the bridge which is also full of bloodworm. There are many tiny craters on the lake bottom that the carp have formed while feeding. Also there are small beds of watercress around some of the margins.

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