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When the Birmingham Corporation built the dams in the Elan Valley, my great grandparents lived on the hill in 'Henfron' and looked down on the beautiful valleys.
Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights, were seen over Elan Valley in June A sprawling Powys estate has become an official dark sky park. Welsh Water-owned Elan Valley, near Rhayader, started the ...
An Emmerdale star has joined a campaign calling for a replica bouncing bomb to be placed in a valley in Powys where it was tested in World War II. Richard Thorp, who plays Alan Turner in the ITV ...
The Elan Valley, which has a series of reservoirs supplying water to Birmingham, was used to test explosives in 1942. As part of Wallis's experiments, a large hole was blown in Nant-y-Gro dam.