Watermead Country Park

The Watermead Country Park is a network of artificial lakes in the valley of the River Soar and the old Grand Union Canal, in and to the north of Leicester and in and to the south of the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire.

It runs north to south along the path of the watercourses, with Birstall to the west and Thurmaston to the east.

A statue on the western side of the lake depicts the final scene of Shakespeare's play King Lear.

There was a previous woolly mammoth where the current one stands, although it was burned down in an arson attack several years ago[when?

They had been plucked from the lake by a police officer, who was leaning out of a helicopter hovering above the frozen surface.