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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Adrian Boliston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haddon Hill and Church of St James.
Haddon Hill
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haddon Hill is a prominent east–west aligned ridge in west Somerset, England, close to Hartford within the civil parish of Brompton Regis. It lies on the south-eastern fringe of Exmoor National Park though is separated from the Exmoor massif itself by the…
Church of St John
Church
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Anglican Church of St John in Skilgate, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brompton Regis and Upton.
Brompton Regis
Village
Photo: Graham Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brompton Regis is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England about 5 miles north-east of Dulverton. It is situated on the River Pulham in the Brendon Hills within the Exmoor National Park, close to Wimbleball Lake, a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979.
Upton
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Riley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upton is a village and civil parish north of Skilgate in Somerset, England. It is situated on a hill above the eastern end of Wimbleball Lake.
Skilgate
Village
Photo: Rabbi WP Thinrod, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skilgate is a village and civil parish 5 miles east of Dulverton and 8 miles west of Wiveliscombe in Somerset, England. It has a population of 96. The parish, which covers an area of 866 ha, straddles the boundary of the Exmoor National Park lying on the southern edge of the Brendon Hills, and is close to the border with Devon.
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″ northLongitude
-3.46243° or 3° 27′ 45″ westElevation
781 feet (238 metres)Open location code
9C3R3G8Q+62OpenStreetMap ID
way 333423691OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirGeoNames ID
3345360Wikidata ID
Q7348416
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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”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wimbleball Lake”. Photo: Adrian Boliston, CC BY-SA 2.0.