Willen Lake South put-in (Willen)
This slipway sits on the south basin of Willen Lake, a roughly 40-hectare balancing lake in Milton Keynes split into north and south basins by the A509. The Parks Trust permits paddlers to launch their own kayaks, canoes and paddleboards on Willen Lake; the lake's staffed watersports centre and self-launch scheme operate from their own pontoons elsewhere on the south basin, about 300 metres along the shore.
Willen Lake is a roughly 40-hectare, purpose-built balancing lake created during the 1970s development of Milton Keynes, built to prevent flooding downstream in Newport Pagnell and Bedford. The south and north basins are divided by an embankment carrying the A509; this launch sits on the south basin, along whose edge the village of Willen and its Grade I listed, Robert Hooke-designed Church of St Mary Magdalene (1680) stand.
The lake was engineered with variable depth: deeper channels for fish alongside shallower margins that can be exposed as banks in dry spells, with the south basin generally deeper than the north.
Nearby
Cafe at Willen Lake's watersports centre, about 300 metres along the lakeside.
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1 launch within 72m- 72m north
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