Stoke Dry Wood, Leicestershire

The county boundary with Rutland

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Eyebrook Reservoir was formed by the damming of the Eye Brook between 1937 and 1940 by Stewarts & Lloyds to supply water to their Corby steel works. During the Second World War it was used in May 1943 as a practice site for the Dambuster raids and a plaque commemorates this.

Uploaded to Geograph by Marathon on 18 June 2016

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