Pearl Lake, Shobdon

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Pearl Lake, Shobdon

Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 13 Apr 2016

Eutrophic lake surrounded by carr and now an expanding caravan park. Probably a kettlehole as Shobdon has a good set of glacial deposition features. As the name suggests there was a mussel fishery here once.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.253414
Longitude
-2.89399