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Straining Tower, Lake Vyrnwy

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Straining Tower, Lake Vyrnwy

Name: Straining Tower, Lake Vyrnwy
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Location: Llanwddyn, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom

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1. Lake Vyrnwy Dam – Lake Vyrnwy Dam loop from Llanwddyn

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2. Lake Vyrnwy Dam – Lake Vyrnwy Dam loop from Llanwddyn

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3. Lake Vyrnwy Dam – Lake Vyrnwy Dam loop from Llanwddyn

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Zoe Evans

April 19, 2023

Magical looking tower, which is originally is a drainage system

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June 5, 2024

The Straining Tower at Lake Vyrnwy is an intake tower built to extract water from the lake. The tower stands on the north shore of Lake Vyrnwy, near the village of Llanwddyn, in Powys, Wales. The Lake Vyrnwy dam project was designed to provide a water supply to the city of Liverpool and work on the dam began in 1881. On its completion 11 years later, the lake was the largest reservoir in Europe and water was drawn from it into the straining tower and carried to Liverpool on a 110km-long aqueduct. The engineers for the project were Thomas Hawksley and George Frederick Deacon, although the straining tower was entirely Deacon's design. The tower is constructed in a Gothic Revival style, purportedly based on the tower of the castle at Chillon, Switzerland. It draws heavily on the contemporaneous work of William Burges, whose Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch are clear influences. The straining tower is a Grade I listed building

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Elevation 320 m

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Straining Tower, Lake Vyrnwy

1. Lake Vyrnwy Dam – Lake Vyrnwy Dam loop from Llanwddyn

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