Lake Vyrnwy Wales January 2019
A beautiful part of Wales in the Uk. Definitely worth going here any time of the year.
The Changing Valley - A History of Lake Vyrnwy and Llanwddyn
Lake Vyrnwy Hotel and Spa - Explore Lake Vyrnwy
A little taster of what we have to offer here at Lake Vyrnwy in Wales.
The hotel itself offers four star luxury accommodation, award-winning fine dining, a luxurious spa and thermal suite, a country pub and a spacious function suite for inspirational meetings or romantic weddings. There's plenty of ways to explore Wales and adventure through the North Wales countryside near Snowdonia. The area offers an array of activities to make the most of the 22,000 acre nature reserve:
You could try your hand at clay pigeon shooting or fly fishing (available at the hotel -
You could hire a bike and explore the Welsh countryside on two wheels from Artisans Coffee Shop, Gifts and Cycle Hire (
You could give Nordic Walking a go with fully trained instructor Karen Mcmahon. You would see some of the best views on an off-road walk amongst the wildlife. (
You could hire a sports car and drive around the great Welsh driving roads courtesy of Sports Car Hire (
Lake Vyrnwy Country House Hotel, Spa and Sporting Estate.
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Lake Vyrnwy: Wales, UK | Reservoir
In this video the travel turtles visit Lake Vyrnwy in Powys, Wales. This reservoir was built in the 1880's to supply Liverpool with fresh water. We visited here for a lovely drive and Sunday out with Sean Rowe. Located near is a café, two main hotels and parking. This is also a popular meeting spot for motorcyclists.
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Location: Lake Vyrnwy, Powys, Wales, UK.
Date: January 2019
Our Trip Advisor Review (by Chris):
Our Instagram: @TravelTurtlesiG (Maria, Hannah, Chris & Ryan)
Music From: Epidemic Sound
Video Produced by: Ryan Taylor @BreakingRealms
Accompanied By: Sean Rowe
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Drowned Village of Llanwddyn under Lake Vyrnwy in Wales
Clip from From The Celts The Final Conflict first broadcast 11/06/87, Similar to the drowning of Capel Celyn, flooded by Liverpool Council in 1965 to build a reservoir (despite huge protests in Wales) .
straining tower on Lake Vyrnwy
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Lake Vyrnwy Dam And Reservoir Powys Wales in 4k
Filmed With Dji Mavic Air in 4k
THE DAM
The Dam was started in 1881 and completed seven years later in 1888. It was the first large stone-built dam in the United Kingdom, and is built partly out of great blocks of Welsh slate. When built it cost £620,000, which today is around £22,000,000. The dam is 44 metres (140 ft) high from the bottom of the valley, and 39 metres (130 ft) thick at the base. The dam's length is 357 metres (1,170 ft), and has a road bridge running along the top. It is decorated with over 25 arches and two small towers (each with four corner turrets) that rise 4 metres (13 ft) above the road surface.
Vyrnwy was the first dam to carry water over its crest instead of in a channel at the side. At the bottom of the dam is a body of water known as the Stilling Basin, this is necessary to absorb the energy when the water flows over the crest and into the valley, and stops the water from eroding the foundations of the dam.
Underneath the West Tower is a building known as the Power House. Inside is an electrical generator which is driven by water leaving the reservoir. Before mains electricity arrived in the 1960s this was Llanwddyn's only source of power.
The West and East Towers release compensation water by huge valves, which are controlled by Severn Trent Water. This water is purely for the River Vyrnwy, which would otherwise dry out unless in flood. Depending on the Water Levels downstream Severn Trent release anything from 25 to 45 megalitres (5.5 to 10 million gallons) of compensation water into the river Vyrnwy each day. Only a few hundred yards downstream is a weir, which the Environment Agency use to measure the daily amount of compensation water. This weir also holds back enough water to create the stilling basin.
Earlier dams in Britain had been built by making great earth embankments to hold back the water. This new type of stone dam would change the face of the Welsh landscape over the coming years. The next stone dams to be built in Wales on an even bigger scale than Vyrnwy were those built in the Elan Valley. 1
The lake/reservoir
The reservoir is Severn Trent Water's largest. When full, it is 26 metres (84 ft) deep, contains 59.7 gigalitres (13.125 × 10 ^ 9 imp gal), and covers an area of 4.54 square kilometres (1,121 acres), the equivalent of around 600 football pitches. The lake has a circumference of 19 kilometres (12 mi) with a road that goes all the way around it. Its length is 7.64 kilometres (4.75 mi). On a clear day the lake, along with many others in North Wales, can be seen from space.
311 brooks, waterfalls and rivers flow into the lake and are named after the mountains or hillsides they flow from. Some are no more than a trickle, while others cascade down the mountains. The main ones, clockwise from the west side of the dam, are named Afon Hirddu, Eunant, Afon Eiddew, Afon Naedroedd, Afon Cedig and Afon Y Dolau Gwynionew.
On the northern edge of the lake is a small hamlet called Rhiwargor where the rivers Afon Eiddew and Afon Naedroedd meet. Up the valley of Afon Eiddew is an impressive waterfall, one of the largest surrounding the lake. Known locally as Pistyll Rhyd-y-meincau, it is commonly known as Rhiwargor waterfall.
In 1889, shortly after completion, the lake was stocked with 400,000 Loch Leven trout.
The lake continues to supply Liverpool with fresh water.
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Song Variation 15 (Dunkirk)
Artist Benjamin Wallfisch, Sir Edward Elgar
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The once-underwater ghost village of England
The village of Derwent was flooded when the Ladybower reservoir was created in the UK's Peak District. But it has since been revealed due to low water levels and has become a tourist attraction. But some visitors have vandalised the newly-visible remains.
Changing Valley
Lake Vyrnwy.
Its stone-built dam, built in the 1880s, was the first of its kind in the world.
It was built for the purpose of supplying Liverpool and Merseyside with fresh water.
It flooded the head of the Vyrnwy Valley and submerged the small village of Llanwddyn.
Clay shooting at Lake Vyrnwy Hotel in Wales
Within the hotel grounds we have a multi-stand, fully automatic clay pigeon venue which provides a comprehensive facility for beginners and experienced guns alike.
Lessons are provided by fully qualified APSI shooting instructors and guns and cartridges can be supplied.
For the experienced gun, the Lake Vyrnwy Shoot provides a challenging sporting layout.
Why not come and give it a try!
Decades after disappearing under water, the drowned town of Potosi re-emerges
For decades, the only sign of the Venezuelan drowned town of Potosi has been a church spire sticking up in a lake.
But slowly, this year, the town on the South American country's eastern edge began to re-emerge inch by inch.
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Paul first fly rod catch ever on Lake Vyrnwy.
The rainbow was 2lb we ran out of video but here you can see what this fish meant to Paul. There is nothing quite like a fish!
'This is a first for me better than sex'
Lake Vyrnwy
A perfect day riding to the stunning Lake Vyrnwy
Lake Vyrnwy Dam - Wales -
Lake Vyrnwy is such a beautiful location, the mountains embrace a lake containing some twelve billion gallons of water resulting in scenery reminiscent of the Alps. The lake which is 5 miles long and half a mile wide looks incredibly natural and you can hardly believe that it was created by in the late 19th century by Liverpool Corporation, to provide a storage reservoir of safe water for the rapidly growing city of Liverpool.
At that time, many cities in Britain were becoming crowded with workers for the new factories and mills of the Industrial Revolution. Terrible slums grew around these factories, and clean water was desperately needed to reduce the dangers of disease. The factories too needed large quantities of water for their steam-driven machines and the deep valleys of Wales were the obvious solution.
The amazing thing is, this has been done so well, that it is such a fantastic stretch of water teeming with wildlife. The huge dam across the river valley was completed in 1889, and was the first large stone-built dam in Britain. Earlier dams had just been created by making earth embankments.
As you take a relatively easy 12 mile bike ride around the lake there is so much to see. Firstly the lake lies in an incredibly secluded spot west of the village of Llanfyllin. It is surrounded by remote mountains and thick forests and its dramatic personality is enhanced by inky black waters and a fairytale neo-Gothic water tower.
The new lake meant that the farms and houses of the people of the valley would be lost underwater. In order to create the large lake the valley of the River Vyrnwy had to be closed off by the huge stone dam and the whole valley behind the dam which contained the old village of Llanwddyn was flooded.
Work on the dam building project began in 1881, and for the next eight years the dam wall at the bottom of the valley was steadily getting higher while the people living in the village went about their everyday lives.
A new settlement was built lower down the valley by the Liverpool Corporation before
the flooding, for the people who lost their homes. The buildings of the old village were knocked down after the people moved out, and even the remains of the dead were removed from the churchyard and reburied next to the new church. In particularly dry summers, the level of the water falls, and you can see the remains of the village.
The dam itself is pretty impressive, 26m high from the bed of the lake to the sill for the overflow, but almost twice that if measured from the buried foundations to the top of the final structure. The dam is 357m long and the base is 36.5m thick.
The stepped openings at the bottom of the contain tunnels which can be controlled to allow enough water to carry on down the river so that it continues to flow normally. The machinery for operating the valves is located inside the two stone towers on the top of the dam wall above the two tunnels.
There is a very unusual pointed tower which rises out of the waters of Lake Vyrnwy some distance from the dam. It looks like part of a fairytale castle, and it is linked to the shore by an arched bridge. This is the 'straining tower', which is where the water leaves the lake at the start of a journey along an aqueduct and pipeline to Liverpool, around 70 miles away. It is called a straining tower because the water first passes through a fine metal mesh to filter or strain out material in the water.
The tower stands in over 15m deep water and is over 48m high, so much of the structure is hidden underwater.
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A brief video clip as a taster of Lake Vyrnwy produced by Powys CC Tourism section. exploremidwales.com
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The sun came out so, so did we, from Leicester to Lake Vyrnwy to Bala to Llangollen and home
WALES. 'THE SAD VILLAGE OF LLANWYDDYN'.. VWYRNWY
They moved the people. They knocked down the church. They knocked down the houses. All in the cause of progress. The Song, Cwtch me Cariad sung in Welsh.