Tag: drowned villages

• When an English City Drowned a Welsh Village: Llanwyddyn and the Making of Lake Vyrnwy

  

  In the summer of 2018, after weeks of sustained heat, the waters of Lake Vyrnwy receded to levels rarely seen in recent decades (source 1). Along the exposed margins of the reservoir, fragments of masonry and faint outlines of foundations emerged from the silt, traces of lanes and walls briefly visible once more (source 1).…

  Antony David Davies

  21/02/2026

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