Blackbrook Reservoir
Blackbrook Reservoir is a 33.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Shepshed and Whitwick in Leicestershire. The reservoir was constructed in 1796 in order to feed the Charnwood Forest Canal, which has long since vanished.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Guise, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount St Bernard Abbey and Grace Dieu Priory.
Mount St Bernard Abbey
Monastery
Photo: Gtatler, Public domain.
Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery belonging to the Trappist Order, near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley.
Grace Dieu Priory
Archaeological site
Photo: JohnArmagh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Grace Dieu Priory was an independent Augustinian priory near Thringstone in Leicestershire, England. It was founded around 1235-1241 by Roesia de Verdun and dissolved in 1538.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coalville and Whitwick.
Coalville
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coalville is a town in the district of North West Leicestershire in Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. In 2011, it had a population of 34,575.
Whitwick
Village
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitwick is a large village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, some two miles north of Coalville in the northwest of the county.
Belton
Village
Photo: Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belton is a small village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The village is located approximately 2 miles northwest of the town of Shepshed, 5.5 miles west-northwest of Loughborough, and 6 miles northeast of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Blackbrook Reservoir
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Category: body of water
- Location: Charley, North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.7522° or 52° 45′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.3198° or 1° 19′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C4WQM2J+V3OpenStreetMap ID
way 3904612OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirWikidata ID
Q880715
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Polish—“Blackbrook Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة بلاكبروك”
- French: “Blackbrook Reservoir”
- German: “Blackbrook-Staudamm”
- Polish: “Blackbrook Reservoir”
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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 “Blackbrook Reservoir”. Photo: Richard Guise, CC BY-SA 2.0.