Lake with the English
The lake with the English is an artificial lake located on the commune of Chamonix-Mount-White in Haute-Savoie.
It is located near the hamlet of the Pilgrims, in the south of Chamonix. It was built at the beginning of for the account of Lord Sinclair, a Écossais which had become purchaser of the ground. The lake was sometimes called lake Sinclair besides.
It comprises a false cave (in Béton armed), a false vault in ruins, as well as an artificial island. These elements were judicious to recreate the bucolic atmosphere of the Loch S of the native land of this British a little mild nutter.
He is located in the vicinity immediate of the Rocher of climbing of Gaillands and the Lac of Gaillands. In fact, it is integrated today into a surface sporting and of relaxation, very attended by the Chamoniards and the tourists. One can practice fishing there.
This sector is at a hundred meters of the stop the Pilgrims of the Ligne Saint-Gervais-Vallorcine.
The lake with the English is fed out of water by a small brook resulting from the mountain of the Brévent. After crosshaving crossed it, this brook feeds the Lac of Gaillands before being thrown in the Arve a little further.
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