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Carsington Water (signposted off the B5035, midway from Ashbourne to Wirksworth). Open all year, best to ring for open times. Admission and car park charge. Dogs on leads welcome; wheelchair access at main visitor centre.

Visitor Centre and exhibition, walks and trails, restaurant, windsurfing, cycle hire and brown trout fishery. Seasonal fishing.   www.carsingtonwater.com

(signposted off the B5035, midway from Ashbourne to Wirksworth).  Open all year, best to ring for open times. Admission and car park charge. Dogs on leads welcome; wheelchair access at main visitor centre.

Carsington Water is a reservoir that takes water from the River Derwent at Ambergate during winter months, pumping up to the reservoir by 10.5-kilometre (6.5 mi) long tunnels and aqueduct. Water is released back into the river during summer months for water abstraction and treatment further downstream. It is England's ninth largest reservoir with a capacity of 35,412 megalitres. The reservoir is a major centre for leisure activities including walkingcyclingfly fishingbirdwatchingsailingcanoeing, and windsurfing. Birds seen at the site include little owllittle grebegreat northern diverEurasian oystercatchercommon tern and breeding common redshank. Feral barnacle geese are found there; a wild, ringed, barnacle goose was found in March 2011—it was ringed at WWT Caerlaverock in Dumfrieshire, Scotland on 8 February 1999. Fly fishing is available from boats that can be hired from the Fishing Lodge. Fly fishing is for brown trout and rainbow trout only. Water volume‎: ‎35,412 ML (28,709 acre·ft), Max. depth‎: ‎33 m (108 ft), Built‎: ‎1989.

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Derbyshire
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