The dam of the Marchant reservoir
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The dam of the Marchant reservoir
Image: © Bill Boaden Taken: 5 Feb 2016
The water here was part of the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks scheme centred in Lake Vyrnwy. A description of the proposed works was posted in the London Gazette of 18/11/1879: 8. An Aqueduct (to be called the Marchnant Aqueduct) wholly situate in the township of Marchnant and parish of Llanwddyn commencing in the stream known as the Marchnant about 2 chains above a dam or weir to be placed across the said stream at a point, thereon 6 chains or thereabouts in a southerly direction from the farmhouse known as Gwreiddian and terminating in the said intended reservoir at a point 14 chains or thereabouts in a northerly direction from the Cynon Isaf farmhouse aforesaid.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.767272
Longitude
-3.421165