Foremark Reservoir ( OS grid reference ) is a reservoir in South Derbyshire owned by Severn Trent which is also a nature reserve open to the public for walking, fishing, bird watching and horse riding. Severn Trent are working together with the National Trust at Foremark. It is also the base for Burton Sailing Club. The reservoirs source of water is from the River Dove at Egginton, and it was constructed in the 1970s. The reservoir is accessible from the road between

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and Ticknall. It is north of

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ashby-de-la-Zouch, sometimes spelt Ashby de la Zouch () and shortened locally to Ashby, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The town is near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire ...

and close to Ingleby,

Swadlincote Swadlincote is a former mining town in the district of South Derbyshire, England, lying within The National Forest area. It borders the counties of Leicestershire and Staffordshire, south-east of Burton upon Trent and north-west of Ashby-de ...

and Willington. It is part of the

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. Admission is free, but there is a charge for the use of the car park.

Wildlife

Twenty-seven varieties of butterfly have been recorded on the reserve, including the large skipper, the speckled wood, white-letter hairstreak, small copper, holly blue and the

brown argus ''Aricia agestis'', the brown argus, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic realm, north to northern Jutland (Denmark) and east to Siberia and the Tian Shan. Subspecies *''A. a. agestis'' southern and ce ...

. The reservoir is stocked with trout and is available for angling between the end of March and the middle of December.Go-Fish site
/ref> One reason for the plentiful fish might be the large abundance of aquatic invertebrates – including

dragonfly A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...

larvae, water boatman,

great diving beetle The great diving beetle (''Dytiscus marginalis'') is an aquatic diving beetle native to Europe and northern Asia, and in the UK is common in Wales, much of England and southern Scotland but less common on chalk and in the far north. The great ...

s (and larvae),

pond skaters The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water skeeters, water scooters, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, or water skimmers. Consistent with the classification of the Gerridae as tr ...

, water scorpions and silver diving beetles.Trent website article
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References

External links

National Forest PageGeograph Photos of Foremark Reservoir
Reservoirs in Derbyshire Drinking water reservoirs in England {{Derbyshire-geo-stub