List of dams and reservoirs in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of dams and reservoirs in the United Kingdom.

Contents

England

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cornwall

County Durham

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

East Sussex

Essex

Gloucestershire

Greater Manchester

Hertfordshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

London

The following reservoirs form the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain.

Northamptonshire

Northumberland

North Yorkshire

Oxfordshire

Rutland

Shropshire

Somerset

South Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Surrey

Suffolk

Warwickshire

West Midlands

West Sussex

West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

Worcestershire

Northern Ireland

County Down

Scotland

City of Aberdeen

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Argyll and Bute

Clackmannanshire

Dumfries and Galloway

City of Dundee

East Ayrshire

East Dunbartonshire

East Lothian

East Renfrewshire

City of Edinburgh

Falkirk

Fife

City of Glasgow

Highland

Inverclyde

Midlothian

Moray

North Ayrshire

North Lanarkshire

Orkney

Perth and Kinross

Renfrewshire

Scottish Borders

Shetland

South Ayrshire

South Lanarkshire

Stirling

West Dunbartonshire

West Lothian

Western Isles

Wales

Anglesey

Bridgend

Cardiff

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Conwy

Denbighshire

Gwynedd

Merthyr Tydfil

Neath Port Talbot

Pembrokeshire

Powys

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Swansea

Torfaen

Wrexham

See also

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