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Llanwddyn

Lake Vyrnwy, Powys

A Welsh village that lies beneath Lake Vyrnwy.

In the 1880s Liverpool built the first great stone dam in Britain to create Lake Vyrnwy. The old village of Llanwddyn, with its church, chapels, pubs and farms, was flooded.

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When
Flooded 1888
Where
52.7700, -3.4700
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Lake Vyrnwy has an RSPB reserve, walks and a hotel overlooking the water.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

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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