Kinder Reservoir
- Area
- 0.18 km²
- Tonight
- 4°CCloudy · Wind 27 km/h W
Kinder Reservoir is a lake at 277 m above sea level in England, United Kingdom, 0.18 km² in area and 0.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 277 m
- Length
- 0.9 km
- Shoreline
- 3.1 km
Kinder Reservoir in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 3.1 km≈45 min to walk around
Kinder Reservoir 3D map
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Kinder Reservoir terrain and contours
20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Kinder Reservoir elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Kinder Reservoir weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 27 km/h W
Kinder Reservoir forecast for about 277 m.
- Tonight4°–27 km/h W
- Today4°10°20.3 mm41 km/h W
- Sun5°8°9.5 mm47 km/h W
- Mon5°13°8.7 mm36 km/h SW
- Tue7°12°6.0 mm37 km/h SW
- Wed7°10°2.0 mm23 km/h SW
- Thu8°9°0.2 mm12 km/h SE
- Fri8°9°7.0 mm17 km/h SE
- Sat4°8°10.3 mm21 km/h SE
- Sun3°7°–24 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Kinder Reservoir
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Kinder Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Bowden Bridge
Nearest campsite
chapel view campsite
Nearest caravan site
Shaw Farm - Static Caravans
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Bowden BridgeParking | 1.5 km SW |
| Parking | 2.3 km WSW |
| Parking | 2.4 km WSW |
| chapel view campsiteCampsite | 4.4 km SSE |
| Upper Booth Farm CampsiteCampsite | 5.3 km ESE |
| Chinley CampingCampsite | 6.0 km S |
| Shaw Farm - Static CaravansCaravan site | 6.9 km WSW |
| Caravan site | 6.9 km ESE |
| Ringstones Caravan ParkCaravan site | 7.8 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 70% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 1.5% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 444 m low point 187 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 178 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Oak Eggar12
- Common bilberry9
- Common heather8
- Fox Moth7
- Deer fern7
- Fly Agaric6
Where Kinder Reservoir sits
- Region
- England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Snake Pass512 m↑5.6 km NNE
Toddbrook ReservoirLake · 185 m↑9.0 km SW
Torside ReservoirLake · 196 m↑10 km N
Derwent ReservoirLake↑12 km ENE
Woodhead ReservoirLake · 238 m↑12 km NNE
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-06-19)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)