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Lakeside Boulevard, DN4 5QD

Showing some of the housing development close to this artificial lake.

Paved waterside path close to Lakeside Boulevard

A footbridge heads across towards and island in the lake.

The wooden footbridge on the right gives access to the island area in the centre of picture.

Part of an artificial lake created as the focus of a mixed residential, commercial and recreational development.

A footpath heads around the lake.

Doncaster Lakeside is a man-made lake built on the site of a former airfield and rubbish dump. It was created as part of the leisure and business development of the surrounding area in the late 1990s. The 50-acre lake was a critical component of the design concept for the Lakeside project which was completed in 2002. The lake not only provided an amenity but was also used as a resource to provide fill material to bring marshy land to the south to above flood level. (http://www.som.com/content.cfm/doncaster_lakeside Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects) Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of High Ellers Common prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. (http://sytimescapes.org.uk/node/6321 South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation)

Diffraction of the sunlight by the tiny water droplets has caused a rainbow effect in the spray from the fountain. Doncaster Lakeside is a man-made lake built on the site of a former airfield and rubbish dump. It was created as part of the leisure and business development of the surrounding area in the late 1990s. The 50-acre lake was a critical component of the design concept for the Lakeside project which was completed in 2002. The lake not only provided an amenity but was also used as a resource to provide fill material to bring marshy land to the south to above flood level. (http://www.som.com/content.cfm/doncaster_lakeside Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects) Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of High Ellers Common prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. (http://sytimescapes.org.uk/node/6321 South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation)

Doncaster Lakeside is a man-made lake built on the site of a former airfield and rubbish dump. It was created as part of the leisure and business development of the surrounding area in the late 1990s. The 50-acre lake was a critical component of the design concept for the Lakeside project which was completed in 2002. The lake not only provided an amenity but was also used as a resource to provide fill material to bring marshy land to the south to above flood level. (http://www.som.com/content.cfm/doncaster_lakeside Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects) Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of High Ellers Common prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. (http://sytimescapes.org.uk/node/6321 South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation)