Rutland Water is the largest reservoir in England (by surface area) and one of the largest artificial lakes in Europe. Its surface area is over 4 miles sq, with a 25 mile long perimeter track.
Activities on and around the reservoir include water sports such as sailing and fishing, and there are also pleasure cruises on the Rutland Belle.
As well as walking and cycling, the area is well known for its bird watching, with large areas of wetland and some small woodlands at the western end forming the Rutland Water Nature Reserve, where visitors can spot many interesting species including Osprey, which were re-introduced during 1996. In 2001 the Nature Reserve celebrated the first Osprey chick to fledge in Central England for 150 years.
in the county of Rutland
(2.2 miles, 3.5 km, direction NW)For centuries the countryside around Oakham has echoed to the sound of hunting horns, for the vales and rolling farmland surrounding this sedate market town, have been the stamping ground for the counties hunting fraternity...
in the county of Leicestershire
(8.4 miles, 13.4 km, direction SW)Easter Monday sees the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne engaged in a riotous 'bottle kicking' contest which is said to have pagan origins...
a Historic Market Town in the county of Lincolnshire
(9.1 miles, 14.6 km, direction E)Of the 17 churches, only 6 now remain in Stamford, which is without doubt, one of the finest medieval towns in the British Isles, if not in Europe...
a Historic Market Town in the county of Leicestershire
(11.4 miles, 18.4 km, direction NW)An historic market town famous for its Pork packed pies and Stilton cheeses, both are savoured all over Britain and in many other countries...
in the county of Northamptonshire
(13.8 miles, 22.2 km, direction SE)The lantern tower of the Church of St. Mary and All Saints at Fotheringhay shines through the deepening shadows of the great trees that frame it, shadows matched in darkness by those less visible that haunt the village where the final tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots was enacted...
All towns in Rutland
Looking around the romantic ruin of Kirby Hall it is easy to imagine the splendour of an age when romance was all, and great.....
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This is a graceful house which perfectly epitomises the wealth of the prosperous Elizabethan period. Burghley was completed in.....
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