North across Pen-y-fan Pond
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North across Pen-y-fan Pond
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 18 May 2014
The pond is a former canal feeder reservoir in what is now Pen-y-fan Country Park. At more than 200 metres across here, this body of water looks like a lake not a pond. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is of little help in determining the precise distinction between a pond and lake. A pond is "A fairly small body of still water". A lake is "A large body of water entirely surrounded by land". So a pond is a smaller than a lake and a lake is bigger than a pond...
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Image Location
Latitude
51.699562
Longitude
-3.161866