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The five lakes are known as the Claerwen, Craig-goch, Pen-y-garreg, Garreg-ddu, and Caban-coch. [2] Water from the reservoirs is carried by gravity to Frankley Reservoir in Birmingham via the Elan aqueduct. Pumping is not required because the network drops 52 metres (171 ft) along its 73-mile (117 km) length from its source to Frankley.
Caban Coch Dam. The Elan Valley (Welsh: Cwm Elan) is a river valley situated to the west of Rhayader, in Powys, Wales, sometimes known as the "Welsh Lake District".It covers 70 square miles (180 km 2) of lake and countryside.
Loch Cam - Bridgend, Isle of Islay; Loch Chaorunn - South Knapdale; Loch Ciaran - Clachan, North Kintyre; Loch Clachaig - North Knapdale; Loch Eck - Cowal; Loch Fad - Bute; Loch Finlas - 4 km SW Luss; Loch Gearach - Port Charlotte, Islay; Loch Glashan - Lochgair, Mid-Argyll; Loch Gleann - Oban; Loch Iarnan - Port Ellen, Islay; Loch Leacann ...
The Craig Goch reservoir had been identified in the 1970s and in the 1990s as a potential source of water for the south-east of England. [5] The latest project envisaged raising the existing dam, adding a secondary dam at the head of the River Ystwyth valley and piping water from the high head generated into the River Severn and subsequently transferring it by pipeline aqueduct to the head ...
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The remains of the larger Iron Age fort from within the remains of the smaller one. Y Garn Goch is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the east of Carmarthenshire, Wales.
It is followed by ascent to the arête, before tackling three rock-pinnacles to a grassy col at Bwlch Coch. This first part of the ridge is exposed with precipices below, having resulted in several fatalities, even of experienced mountaineers; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the Snowdonia National Park Authority describes it as ‘not a mountain for the ...
Red Wharf Bay, also known as Traeth Coch (Welsh for "red beach"), is a village and a sandy bay in Anglesey, Wales. The bay lies between the villages of Pentraeth and Benllech . It is also close to Castell Mawr Rock , thought to be the site of an Iron Age fort.