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Capel Celyn

Llyn Celyn, Gwynedd

A Welsh-speaking village drowned for Liverpool, and a famous slogan: Cofiwch Dryweryn.

In 1965 the village of Capel Celyn, with its chapel, school and farms, was flooded to create a reservoir supplying Liverpool. Almost every Welsh MP voted against it, but it went ahead.

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When
Flooded 1965
Where
52.9500, -3.7000
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

A memorial chapel stands on the shore of Llyn Celyn, near Bala.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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