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Bolton-on-Swale Lake Nature Reserve

📍 Bolton-on-SwaleNorth Yorkshire

A nature reserve to explore on foot near Bolton-on-Swale.

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Bolton-on-Swale Lake A 10.9 hectare former gravel pit now a nature reserve. The gravels were deposited when the glaciers retreated at the time of the last ice age. — Bolton-on-Swale Lake A 10.9 hectare former gravel pit now a nature reserve. The gravels were deposited when the glaciers retreated at the time of the last ice age.Photo: Mick Garratt · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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