Blue Lagoon Local Nature Reserve

The Blue Lagoon lies on part of the site of the former Read & Andrews brickworks. and the manufacture of bricks was an important industry for the area from the late 19th century. The works on the Blue Lagoon site were closed in 1970 The area of the nature reserve contains two pits: the northern Water Eaton pit, now known as the Blue Lagoon, and the southern Flettons pit. The Water Eaton pit was flooded in the 1940s when the adjoining Water Eaton Brook burst its banks. The pure blue colour of the pit gave the lake its colloquial and now official name. The Flettons pit was used in brick manufacture until 1970 and in the early 1980s was used as a landfill site.