WORK to restore part of a former lake at Stover Country Park has begun.

The park this week announced that work to partially restore the Serpentine Lake, which has a key feature of the Stover estate dating back to the eighteenth century, has started.

The lake once carried water, before filling up with silt and disappearing as a noticeable feature in the 1950s.

But the Restoring Stover Park Project is aiming to change that.

The project aims to make the park ‘more resilient whilst enhancing its heritage and environment for people to engage with’.

And a part of this enhancement will see a section of the historic Serpentine Lake re-established.

Contractors MURLAC have been tasked with the restoration, with MRK Plant & Groundworks carrying out the excavation.

Silt is to be removed down to the original clay line, creating a body of water with varying depth.

A new path will also be created to enable visitors to walk alongside the lake.