Swindon, Wiltshire - Coate Water, Lake Walk - Photochrom postcard 1941 pmk

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• Picture / Image:  Swindon [Wiltshire] - Coate Water, Lake Walk 
• Publisher: Photochrom Co. 
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d orange
• Postmark(s): Swindon 16 April 1941 'Post early in the Day' slogan
• Sent to:  Miss M. Butcher, 5 Throstle Place, Middleton, Leeds
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Coate Water (grid reference SU188820) is a country park situated 5 km (3.1 mi) to the southeast of central Swindon, England, near junction 15 of the M4. It takes its name from its main feature, a reservoir originally built to provide water for the Wilts & Berks Canal.

The reservoir formed a 70-acre (280,000 m²) lake, built in 1822 by diverting the River Cole. Its primary purpose was to provide water for the canal and it remained outside the borough of Swindon until the borough's expansion in 1928.^[1]

In 1914, with the canal abandoned, Coate became a Pleasure Park; changing rooms and a wooden diving board were added. In 1935 the wooden diving platform was replaced with a 33 ft (10 m) high concrete platform in an Art Deco style which has been praised by English Heritage and, although swimming in the lake has been prohibited since 1958, it was given Grade II listed protection in 2013.^[2] Now named officially named Coate Water Country Park, the lake is both a leisure facility and a nature reserve.

An area of 51.1 hectares of the lake and its margins has been notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, mainly for its breeding bird populations.^[3][4] Part of the site is also a local nature reserve.^[5][6]