Brixworth Country Park (Northants) Reviews
Newest Review: ... wettest year on record was also down to global warming, even though it was a degree colder in the UK last year because of all the rain. Global warming hype is simply to raise personal taxes to make up for the shortfall big business refuse to contribute to the Treasury now by hiding it in tax havens. Now the point on global warming and a country park in little old Northamptonshire is that the weather makes this park a very different place to go as the water levels are up and down in the reservoir across the seasons. When the water is low you can walk out to little islands of what used to be here before they flooded the valley and when it's ... more
Customer Brixworth Country Park (Northants) Reviews (2)
by - written on 13/01/13 (Very useful, 53 readings)
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In March 2012 we were told we were suffering drought and a hosepipe ban would be enforced in Northamptonshire. The expansive and attractive Pitsford Reservoir that supplies Northampton with its water, and situated next to Brixworth Country Park, was at 69% capacity and falling. To locals this was not unusual and they have seen far worse in the last 50 years. After the wettest April and June on record the panic was quickly over and the reservoir was back to its normal levels, about 87%, which kind of debunks the idea that Britain can suffer any serious effects of global warming if the correction can be made so quickly by that thing we call traditional British weather. A .. Read the complete review
Swanning around in the Country Park (1138 words)by - written on 16/07/09, updated on 20/07/09 (Very useful, 305 readings)
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We Brits are by history (and you could say geography) a sea-faring nation and if we're kept too far from the water some of us get a bit twitchy. Since Northamptonshire is probably statistically about as far from the sea as it's possible to get, having something large and wet in the area is very important to us. For my husband and me, that little bit of watery escape territory is Brixworth Country Park. Brixworth Country Park was opened in 1990 and is a jointly managed project between Anglian Water - the local water supplier - and Northamptonshire County Council. The country park surrounds approximately half of the man-made lake known as Pitsford Water or ... Read the complete review
