Stowe Pool Claimed

Stowe Pool is located in the city of Lichfield, formerly a fishery (along with nearby Bishop's Pool and Minister Pool), and became a reservoir in 1856. The outflow from Stowe Pool flows north as Curborough Brook, eventually flowing into the River Trent. Stowe Pool has a capacity of 217,600m³ (47.8 million gallons) and a surface area of 55,000m² (14 acres), with an average depth of 3.95m.

The pool supports a large variety of fish  including, carp, bream, tench, roach, perch, pike and eel. Stowe Pool also supports a large and healthy population of white-clawed crayfish. Due to the isolated nature of Stowe Pool the crayfish are not exposed to disease which has spread into many of their other habitats. As a result of its crayfish population Stowe Pool was designated a SSSI site in 1998. Effective wildlife management of the pool has attracted various species of wildfowl, including swans, moorhens, coots and grebes. Stowe Pool has limited marginal vegetation, but its water plants include Polygonum amphibium and spiked water-milfoil. The shallow margins of the pool are dominated by extensive low-growing blankets of the water plant Chara aspera var. curta a nationally scarce