Dorney Lake

Dorney Lake
Aerial view of Dorney Lake in 2007
Dorney Lake
Location	Dorney, Buckinghamshire, England
Coordinates	51°29′36″N 0°39′56″W / 51.4933°N 0.6655°W / 51.4933; -0.6655
Type	Artificial lake, rowing lake
Basin countries	United Kingdom
Built	2006
Max. length	2.2 kilometres (1.4 miles)

Dorney Lake (also known as Eton College Rowing Centre, and as Eton Dorney as a 2012 Summer Olympics venue) is a purpose-built rowing lake and Meetings & Events Venue in England. It is near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and is around 3 km (2 miles) west of Windsor and Eton, close to the River Thames.

The lake is privately owned and financed by Eton College, which spent £17 million developing it. Additional grants, totalling £500,000, were obtained from Sport England, UK Sport, the DCMS and SEEDA in order to build the lake's finish tower. The project was completed in 2006, after 10 years of construction.^[1] The facilities are hired out for rowing, as well as for canoeing, Hospitality, dragon boating, and triathlon.