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Don’t usually come into the ale house but a discussion in my local ale house got me thinking..
A friend had just visited the museum in Liverpool and was shocked that there was no reference to our little village of Llanwddyn in mid Wales.
Why you might ask?
Well, it was the village of Llanwddyn that was drowned to create a lake for the supply of drinking water to the city of Liverpool.
A year or two after our great club was formed a great dam was built, the largest in Europe at the time, and the houses and buildings of ‘Llanwddyn’ village were destroyed allowing the valley to be flooded. A gravity fed pipeline was then constructed to take the water to Liverpool almost 70miles away. (Whilst I often marvel at the construction of the dam, the fact that a gravity fed pipeline of this length was built in the 1880’s is truly astonishing IMO)
Lake Vyrnwy as it is widely known today is still supplying water to the city to this day.. I wonder if Liverpudlians are aware of this history and know the journey the water has made when you make a brew or have a bath!? or is the sacrifice, skill and history being lost? Genuinely interested to know.. thanks.
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A friend had just visited the museum in Liverpool and was shocked that there was no reference to our little village of Llanwddyn in mid Wales.
Why you might ask?
Well, it was the village of Llanwddyn that was drowned to create a lake for the supply of drinking water to the city of Liverpool.
A year or two after our great club was formed a great dam was built, the largest in Europe at the time, and the houses and buildings of ‘Llanwddyn’ village were destroyed allowing the valley to be flooded. A gravity fed pipeline was then constructed to take the water to Liverpool almost 70miles away. (Whilst I often marvel at the construction of the dam, the fact that a gravity fed pipeline of this length was built in the 1880’s is truly astonishing IMO)
Lake Vyrnwy as it is widely known today is still supplying water to the city to this day.. I wonder if Liverpudlians are aware of this history and know the journey the water has made when you make a brew or have a bath!? or is the sacrifice, skill and history being lost? Genuinely interested to know.. thanks.
History of Lake Vyrnwy | Lake Vyrnwy Tourism
Read all about this history of Lake Vyrnwy - find out about the valley before the lake, the creation of the lake and the history after the lake was created.
