Conservation work is due to begin at a memorial to a drowned Welsh village. Capel Celyn was flooded over 50 years ago to construct a reservoir supplying drinking water to Liverpool and Wirral.

In 1965, despite huge protests, the Welsh speaking village of Capel Celyn near Bala was drowned under the newly formed Tryweryn reservoir in order to provide a new water supply for Liverpool.

Buildings of the sunken village Capel Celyn have begun to emerge from the Llyn Celyn reservour following the recent drought A person has been rescued after becoming stuck in the mud of a drowned ...

A film of a drowned village. The model was built in a TV studio to remind viewers of the drowning of Capel Celyn village in the Bala area in 1965. This village and the surrounding valley was ...