Bewl Water - Lamberhurst

The main visitor area and the Waterfront Café are accessible to wheelchairs. Areas of the path extending from the main car park to both Seven Pound Creek Jetty and Heatherells Jetty are also suitable for wheelchairs with wide tyres.

Bewl Water is a reservoir in the valley of the River Bewl (which is a tributary of the River Teise), straddling the boundary between Kent and East Sussex. It is about 2 miles south of Lamberhurst, in Kent. The reservoir was part of a project to increase supplies of water in the area. Work began to construct the reservoir in 1973 by damming and then flooding a valley. It was completed in 1975 having been filled with over 31,300 million litres of water. It is now the largest body of inland water in south east England. In winter, when the flow in the River Medway exceeds 275 million litres per day, river water is pumped to storage in the reservoir. There is an outline plan to raise the water level by a further 3m to increase the yield by up to 30% to help with the growing water demand in south-east England. Many recreational activities take place on and around the reservoir. These include sailing and windsurfing (formerly through Bewl Valley Sailing