Capel Celyn
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Capel Celyn was a rural community to the northwest of Bala in Merionethshire, Wales, in the Tryweryn valley. The village and other parts of the valley were flooded in the Tryweryn flooding of 1965 to
1963 photo of Capel Celyn
Tree stumps at Capel Celyn in 2006, exposed by low water level of reservoir
Tryweryn flooding
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The Tryweryn flooding, or Tryweryn drowning, was the 1965 flooding of the Tryweryn valley in Gwynedd, Wales, to create the Llyn Celyn reservoir. The flooding of the valley, located to the north west o
Capel Celyn
…to the northwest of Bala in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd), Wales, in the Tryweryn valley. The village and other parts of the valley were flooded in the Tryweryn flooding of 1965 to create a reservoir, Llyn Celyn, in order to supply Liverpool and Wirral with water for industry. At the time the village was one of the few…
Llyn Celyn in January 1967, created by the flooding of the Tryweryn valley.
Protest in Liverpool against the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley, 1956
Memorial chapel for the village at Llyn Celyn
The memorial in August 2017