Ian Stephens,chief of Cumbria Tourism has told the Croydon Advertiser this:
‘South Norwood has three ponds. We have England’s longest lake and hundreds of other bodies of water. I don’t recall South Norwood being immortalised by great poets like Wordsworth’
Well Mr. Stephens you shortly will. SNTB are commissioning our Poet in Residence TIM WELLS to compose a special poem about our great lakes which will be premiered in situ at the Country Park Lake and will be far superior to rubbish about ghosts and daffodils. May we also remind you that you may have had Wordsworth we have Samuel Coleridge Taylor and the estimable Arthur Conan Doyle who, as far as we can see, never set a novel in Cumbria. ……..for good reason no doubt.
South Norwood Tourist Board 
The official distinction in cold parts of the world (by those who study them professionally) between a pond and a lake is that a lake is deep enough to develop a thermocline in winter. This is a zone at the top where the water gets warmer as you go down (well less cold, it’s between freezing and 4 degrees) above the rest of the water at 4 degrees. This can have important effects on the chemistry and biology. It seems unlikely that your very attractive bodies of water are deep enough to meet this definition of a lake. However, your ‘lakes’ are then in excellent company because by this definition Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland (visible from space) is a pond! Perhaps you might like to consider a reciprocal link to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board!