Perhaps the most famous of them all, Capel Celyn was flooded to create a fresh ... Its history has been erased from modern maps, but lives on through the stories of its residents, who still ...

The tiny village of Capel Celyn wasn't, in his view, worth it. And an honest telling of the story reminds us that not everyone in the area saw injustice. Some saw jobs and opportunity. Image ...

The 50th anniversary of the drowning of the Welsh village of Capel Celyn will be marked on 21 October. It was flooded in 1965 to create Tryweryn reservoir, to supply water for the people of Liverpool.

The village of Capel Celyn in the Trweryn Valley in North Wales was flooded in 1965 to make way for a new reservoir. A post office, school and chapel were all submerged along with 800 acres of land.

But nearly 60 years ago the residents of Capel Celyn near Bala received the shock news the valley was to be flooded to create a huge reservoir to provide drinking water for the city of Liverpool.

A new reservoir was needed, and Capel Celyn, its school, chapel, post office, farms and 12 houses would be subsumed to provide it. Nearly 50 people and a way of life in the Tryweryn valley which ...