Llyn Llydaw
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Llyn Llydaw is a natural lake in Snowdonia National Park on the flanks of Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain. This long thin lake has formed in a cwm about one-third of the way up the mountain. It is on
Llyn Llydaw seen from the summit of Snowdon
Glaslyn
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Glaslyn is a lake in the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
Llyn Llydaw
…Snowdon and many walk past this lake on the Miners' Track. Llyn Llydaw is the largest of the three lakes on Snowdon's eastern flank. Higher up lies Glaslyn, and lower down lies Llyn Teyrn. In 1905, a two-kilometre (1+1⁄4-mile) pipeline was built from the lake into the valley below. Water from the lake…
Looking east from Snowdon: Glaslyn at bottom, Llyn Llydaw above
In Arthurian legend, Bedivere threw Excalibur into a lake identified by some as Glaslyn on the slopes of Snowdon.