Brookland Lakes are home to the Dartford & District Angling & Preservation Society who changed to that name in January 1932 after being formed on 9 April 1931 as the Dartford Piscatorial Society.
At the time the club’s home water was Ellingham’s Ponds – now Brooklands Lakes. One of the founder members of the club, not surprisingly was Mr Ellingham. He owned an aggregates company who extracted gravel from what later became the ponds. In a splendid gesture during his lifetime he gave the fishing rights free to DDAPS. Upon his death the lakes reverted to the control of the Dartford Borough Council and DDAPS has leased the lakes from the Council ever since.
As a fishery, Brooklands was thriving before the Second World War, and during the hostilities a popular rumour indicates the lakes were completely covered in camouflage netting to conceal them from enemy aircraft which could have used the water as a landmark when attacking nearby munitions factories.
Brooklands was stocked with carp from way back – even before the old Kent River Board introduced tens of thousands of small carp throughout the county of Kent making it a few short years into the nick-name of ‘carp county’. By the late 1950s some of the Brooklands carp had grown into big fish.
A short series of caches around the lakes.
You are looking for a 60ml pot.
22/4/23: The caches in Central Park and Brookland Lakes were initially published separately but they've ended up making a nice loop so I've now numbered them like that. It can be started anywhere on the loop. To get to CP10 follow the river and go through the tunnel.