| Little grebes breed on ponds, small lakes and meres, flooded gravel pits and beet factory settling ponds. |
| With poor sandy soils overlying chalk or clay, landscape features include heathland vegetation, small lakes, or meres, whose water level is variable, and plantations of trees. |
| Norfolk's feral birds haunt lakes and stretches of river in wooded parkland, the Broads and Breckland meres. |
| Ponds means relatively shallow and usually small bodies of still water or water with a low refreshment rate, most frequently artificially formed, but can also apply to natural pools, tarns, meres or small lakes. |
| Some areas of the Fens were once permanently flooded, creating small lakes or meres, while others were only flooded during periods of high water. |
| Atop the simple structure of the Cheshire Plain, however, lies a highly fragmented pattern of glacial clays, sands, and gravels, meandering rivers, and scattered distinctive small lakes, or meres. |
