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Rudyard Lake provides some of the most dramatic scenery to be found in the Staffordshire Moorlands and over 500,000 visitors come to her shores each year.
The Lake covers some 168 acres and is over 2.5 miles long.
It is owned by the Canal & River Trust and the commercial leisure activities are managed by Rudyard Lake Ltd.
1797
A BRIEF HISTORY
The Lake was built as a reservoir in 1797; even to this day the Lake still supplies the canal system for which it was designed and remains an active working reservoir.The Lake is the place where Rudyard Kipling’s parents first met, where Captain Webb, the first channel swimmer, came to demonstrate his skills and where The African Blondin (Carlos Trower) appeared several times amazing the crowds 30m above the Lake on a tightrope.


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