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Eyebrook Reservoir
Eyebrook Reservoir (also Eye Brook Reservoir) is a reservoir in the East Midlands of England. It straddles the border of Leicestershire (to the west) and Rutland (to the east). It is located about northwest of Corby in Northamptonshire. Nearby villages are Stoke Dry to the north, and Caldecott to the south and near the dam.
The reservoir was formed by the damming of the Eye Brook.〔(The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) - Alerts, Eye Brook Reservoir )〕 It was built between 1937 and 1940 by Stewarts & Lloyds (supervised by Geoffrey Binnie of Binnie & Partners) to supply water to their Corby steel works, now part of Tata Steel, formerly Corus.〔 During the Second World War it was used in May 1943 as a practice site for the Dambuster raids, standing in for the Möhne Reservoir; a plaque commemorates this.
The site is about and consists of of open water and canals, of neutral grassland and of broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland.〔(Natural England - Sites of Specific Scientific Interest )〕 It has been a trout fishery since 1942 and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Eyebrook is an ideal place for bird watching.
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