Fullingbridge Lake was created some 40 years ago at a time when the then Ministry of Agriculture was running a scheme to encourage farmers to save their own water and build reservoirs.
The creation of the 5 acre lake took advantage of the presence of a shallow section of valley in a hillside on farmland three miles east of Westbury. The bottom of this valley was dredged and the resulting material was used to construct a dam at one end of the valley and to build up its south eastern edge. A feeder stream enters the lake at its shallow end where wading birds operate, while at the other end it is about 15 feet deep.
Not long after it was created, the lake was stocked with some 200 rainbow trout by the owner. It has subsequently been leased by the Fullingbridge Game Fishing Syndicate and is regularly stocked throughout the year, mainly with rainbow trout, but also occasionally brown trout.