Virginia Water

This Totem Pole is located at Virginia Water. This being part of Windsor Great Park (Surrey/Berkshire border). The Totem Pole was given to the Queen in 1958 by the people of Canada:

A couple of photos of the lake at Virginia Water. This is not a natural lake but one that was created by damming up a small river.

Nice photo's Mart. I have only been there once and that was many years ago. Those photo's brought back a lot of memories. Thank you.

Very nice, looks very calm and peaceful. :;smile:

I remember taking our children there for an afternoon every now and then. In those days, there was just a (free) dirt car park, bumpy and often muddy. These days there is a big tarmac car park and it costs £7.00 a day to park. There is also a full-blown visitor centre. All very much commercialised.

On the plus side though, it is nicely kept and landscaped. Many different gardens around the perimeter of the lake (about a 4.5 mile walk). There are different routes for walkers and cyclists. You might even see royalty because they sometimes ride horses there.

There's a lake about the same size as that just around the corner from my house no car park charges, I'll post a picture tomorrow

I found some more photos taken at Virginia Water. Here they are...

Columns and stones retrieved from the ruins of Leptis Magna, a former Roman city in Libya. Transported originally to the British Museum and then to Virginia Water in 1826.



This is the dam that holds the waters of the lake back. It most often has some water running over it but the season had been particularly dry:


I wonder how long this has been around:

I think you are probably looking at something well in excess of a thousand years with that tree Mart. Or thereabouts.

Know it well Mart, been there many times as I live fairly near to it.
Have you seen the waterfall, I have a large framed copy of a photo taken by someone else.
With the water pouring down the rocks.wish I was able to put the image on here but can't 
anymore.
Have you been to Valley Gardens or saville Gardens which is the same area,you get to it via 
Wick Lane,

I have the photo of the waterfall without water running over it (called it the dam in my last post). Somewhere in our pile of photograph albums will be a photo with water overflowing from the lake. I haven't been to Valley or Saville Gardens Meerkat. I'll have to put visits to them on the 'to do' list. Thanks. :)

Valley Gardens  ....you can drive through the main park up to Valley Gardens but not sure if you pay or not.
In the right season you can see all The Azaleas and Rhododendrons in full flower in what's called the 
Punch bowl in Valley Gardens
It's a fair walk from wick lane but there was an entrance for cars to drive up to it,don't know if you pay for car park or not.look on the internet there are some pictures.