5-540: Roadford Lake , also known as Roadford Reservoir is a man-made reservoir fed by the River Wolf . It is located to the north-east of Broadwoodwidger in West Devon , eight miles (13 km) east of Launceston and is the largest area of fresh water in the southwest of England. Operated by South West Water , it directly supplies water for North Devon. It also supplies Plymouth and southwest Devon via releases into
10-526: A Celtic or earlier name recorded by the Roman map-maker Ptolemy (Ptolemy II 3 13) as Ουολιβα (Voliba) as a town of the Dumnonii (it may be Broadbury Castle ); rather than referring to the wolf animal. The river runs from Broadbury through the valley below Germansweek and empties into Roadford Lake , a man-made reservoir built in 1989. In July 2006 some 100 million litres of water were released from
15-497: A 100-bed holiday village beside the lake. The facilities are managed by South West Lakes Trust, a registered charity. On 9 June 2022, two people died when the motorboat they were travelling in capsized on the lake. This Devon location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . River Wolf The River Wolf is a minor river in the west of the county of Devon in England . Its name may come from
20-584: The River Tamar for abstraction at Gunnislake . It is a Local Nature Reserve . The creation of the reservoir in 1989 permitted extensive archaeological research to be undertaken in the valley of the River Wolf led by Professor Mick Aston of Bristol University and documented by the Channel Four documentary series Time Signs . In 2008 South West Water received planning permission to build
25-716: The lake to help the survival of salmon in the river during a prolonged period of drought. After Roadford Lake the river continues through Slew Woods below the village of Broadwoodwidger . It then continues in a southerly direction eventually merging with the River Thrushel just north of Tinhay and then joins the River Lyd at Lifton . The River Lyd eventually joins the River Tamar at the Devon/Cornwall border just east of Launceston . The United Kingdom's environmental organisation Natural England currently runs
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