Chew Valley Lake
Chew Valley Lake is a reservoir in Chew Stoke, Chew Valley, Somerset, England. It is the sixth-largest artificial lake by area in the United Kingdom, with an area of 1,200 acres, but only the forty-seventh largest by volume, reflecting the fact it is a shallow lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Holy Trnity and Church of St Laurence, East Harptree.
Church of St Laurence, East Harptree
Church
Photo: The National Churches Trust, CC BY 2.0.
The Church of St Laurence in East Harptree, Somerset, England, was built in the late 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. The original 12th-century church was expanded in the 13th century and the tower added in the 15th.
Sutton Court
Manor estate
Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sutton Court is an English house remodelled by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1850s from a manor house built in the 15th and 16th centuries around a 14th-century fortified pele tower and surrounding buildings.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Harptree and Bishop Sutton.
West Harptree
Village
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
West Harptree is a small village and civil parish in the Chew Valley, Somerset within the unitary district of Bath and North East Somerset. The parish has a population of 439.
Bishop Sutton
Village
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Bishop Sutton is a village on the northern slopes of the Mendip Hills, within the affluent Chew Valley in Somerset. It lies east of Chew Valley Lake and north east of the Mendip Hills, approximately ten miles south of Bristol on the A368, Weston-super-Mare to Bath road.
East Harptree
Village
Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Harptree is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated 5 miles north of Wells and 15 miles south of Bristol, on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills overlooking the Chew Valley.
Chew Valley Lake
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in Somerset, England
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.32085° or 51° 19′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.61644° or 2° 36′ 59″ westElevation
174 feet (53 metres)Open location code
9C3V89CM+8COpenStreetMap ID
way 60211767OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirGeoNames ID
3345405Wikidata ID
Q3044337
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Chew Valley Lake” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chew haraneko aintzira”
- Cebuano: “Chew Valley Lake”
- Chinese: “丘谷湖”
- Dutch: “Chew Valley Lake”
- French: “lac de Chew Valley”
- French: “Lac de Chew Valley”
- Ido: “Chew Valley Lago”
- Ido: “Lago Chew Valley”
- Italian: “lago di Chew Valley”
- Polish: “Chew Valley Lake”
- Polish: “Chew Valley”
- Polish: “Jezioro Chew Valley”
- Spanish: “Chew Valley Lake”
- Spanish: “Lago de Valle Chew”
- Swedish: “Chew Valley Lake”
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