A Little Bit Of Heaven In Wales....

This beautiful lake is Lake Vyrnwy.

The Lake lies just to the south of Snowdonia. It is a man-made reservoir with a perimeter road 11.75 miles long.

A century ago the Vyrnwy Valley looked very different. The valley of the River Vyrnwy was closed off by the building of the dam and the whole valley was flooded when the reservoir was filled. The creation of the lake involved relocating the former village of Llanwyddn. Farms and their land were also submerged below the water. The village consisted of a Parish Church, two Chapels, three Inns, ten Farmhouses and 37 houses. In dry summers the water level sometimes drops far enough for the ruins of the old village to be seen. The new settlement was built lower down the valley, even the graveyard was relocated along with the Church.