Wimbleball Lake
Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor in Somerset, England, is a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979. The 161 feet high dam is of concrete buttress construction and impounds the River Haddeo to provide a water storage capacity of some 21,000 megalitres over an area of 374 acres.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Haddon Hill and Church of St James.
Church of St John
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brompton Regis and Upton.
Wimbleball Lake
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: man-made lake in Somerset, England, UK
- Categories: lake and body of water
- Location: Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.06562° or 51° 3′ 56″ north
Longitude
-3.46243° or 3° 27′ 45″ west
Elevation
781 feet (238 metres)
Open location code
9C3R3G8Q+62
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoir
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Wimbleball Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة ويمبلبول”
- Cebuano: “Wimbleball Lake”
- French: “Wimbleball Lake”
- Swedish: “Wimbleball Lake”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Great Moor and Bessom Cross.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: The Ring and Jeremy Scott Racing.
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