Virginia Water Lake
- Area
- 0.49 km²
- Tonight
- 7°CPartly cloudy · Wind 20 km/h W
Virginia Water Lake is a lake at 35 m above sea level in England, United Kingdom, 0.49 km² in area and 2.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 35 m
- Length
- 2.7 km
- Shoreline
- 9.1 km
Virginia Water Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 9.1 km≈2¼ h to walk around
Virginia Water Lake 3D map
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Virginia Water Lake terrain and contours
5 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.
Virginia Water Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Virginia Water Lake weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 7°C (45°F) · Wind 20 km/h W
Virginia Water Lake forecast for about 35 m.
- Tonight7°–20 km/h W
- Today7°13°14.3 mm37 km/h S
- Sun8°13°–36 km/h W
- Mon9°16°5.1 mm31 km/h S
- Tue10°16°2.2 mm27 km/h SW
- Wed9°15°–18 km/h W
- Thu7°14°0.2 mm6 km/h SE
- Fri9°13°5.3 mm10 km/h SE
- Sat7°11°11.8 mm14 km/h NW
- Sun5°10°–20 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 Virginia Water Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Virginia Water Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Virginia Water Car Park
Nearest campsite
Bears Rails
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.8 km N |
| Virginia Water Car ParkParking | 0.8 km E |
| Temp Car ParkParking | 0.9 km NNE |
| Bears RailsCampsite | 4.7 km N |
| Laleham Camping ClubCampsite | 7.9 km E |
Slope
Share of the 4.7 × 4.7 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 96% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 22 km² view
- Relief in view
- 75 m low point 25 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 2.4 km; 928 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mandarin Duck38
- Tufted Duck36
- Egyptian Goose34
- Mallard31
- Great Crested Grebe27
- Black Swan27
Where Virginia Water Lake sits
- Region
- England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Virginia Water Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-29)
- 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)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)