Summer Hours: The carpark is locked at 7pm. The Visitor Centre closes at 5pm. Café is open until 3pm, or 4pm during weekends and the school holidays.//
Please note, the waterplay feature is closed Monday mornings for routine cleaning and maintenance.
So many people would like to paint but feel they lack natural artistic ability to begin – well maybe I can help? My name is Chris and today I spent the morning demonstrating watercolour painting at the Stanwick Lakes Craft Cafe. The Visitor Centre is a beautiful place...
With the wet and miserable weather this year, we’ve struggled to get up to the apiary for our regular inspections. Inside the hive the bees must keep a constant temperature of 35C, so if we go up and open the hives on a cold day you risk chilling the brood (lava). Up...
As I set off towards Stanwick Lakes from my starting point by Station Road I was greeted by ducks, swans, and buzzards circling overhead. The sun was shining as I flowed peacefully and gently past a gaggle of geese and a heron fishing for lunch. The river has a way of...
The honey bee pollinates roughly a third of all the fruits and crops in Northamptonshire. If we don’t look after it, we could struggle to produce apples, berries, nuts, cucumbers and cabbages in the future. We also need the honey bee to help save our wild flowers,...
I’ve been a Volunteer at Stanwick Lakes since 2004 and during that time I’ve watched the very worrying decline of Northamptonshire’s wild Honeybee colonys. Back in 2009 I went along to one of Stanwick Lakes’ annual general meetings and suggested we do something about...