Rutland Water

Hambleton Hall is perched high atop the Hambleton peninsular and overlooks a magnificent body of water — Rutland Water. The largest man-made lake in western Europe, Rutland Water has something for everyone. The attractive 3,100 acre reservoir has an international reputation for providing a balance of sport, leisure and wildlife conservation and offers the opportunity for all to try something new.

You can try energetic sports such as windsurfing, rock-climbing or canoeing, hire a dinghy, bicycle or fishing boat or just relax by the water and watch the action around the 25 mile shoreline

Summer 2010

“We bin together nah for thirty years…an it don’t seem a day too much.” When I opened the doors of Hambleton Hall on 1st July 1980, the State was a much less effective nanny than now. The breathalyzer was not introduced until 1983 and in the same year it became compulsory for...

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Spring 2010

It’s Turtle Time “For Lo the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.”
(Song of Solomon 2:10) The great snow turned our landscape white on...

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Autumn 2009

It’s for the Birds Recently some giant earth moving machines have been constructing a giant swimming pool for ducks at Egleton end of Rutland Water. The explanation for this bizarre extravagance is that Anglian Water want to extract more water from the reservoir and the new lagoons have been built to ensure...

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Summer 2009

Noel Coward – He’s Back! Noel Coward was a precocious 15 year old would–be theatrical when he paid his first visit to Hambleton Hall as the guest of Eva Astley-Cooper. At the time he had had minimal exposure to the upper-class manners and wit of which Mrs Cooper was a brilliant exponent,...

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Rutland Water

Summer 2010

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