Water Destinations in South West England, United Kingdom
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The Blue Pool
Blue Pool is a flooded, disused clay pit where Purbeck ball clay was once extracted. It is now a lake within the Furzebrook Estate, a 25-acre (10 ha) park of heath woodland and gorse near Furzebrook on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset, southern England. Furzebrook Estate is about 3 mi (5 km) south of Wareham and 2 mi (3 km) west of Corfe Castle.
Dowdeswell Reservoir
Originally built to service Cheltenham with fresh drinking water, this dam on the young River Chelt now acts as a flood protection system
Lyme Bay
A bay in South West England.
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