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    The Claerwen reservoir and dam in Powys, Wales, were the last additions to the Elan Valley Reservoirs system built to provide water for the increasing...
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  • Claerwen Laura James (born October 1970) is a British painter. James is the daughter of the Australian journalist Clive James and his wife, the scholar...
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    Elan) are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales. The reservoirs, which were...
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  • The Claerwen Group is a Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in mid Wales. The name is derived from Claerwen in Powys where the...
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  • The Claerwen Fault is a major SW-NE trending fault in central Wales. It was active as a normal fault during deposition of Late Ordovician to mid-Silurian...
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  • Eternity. James and Shaw had two daughters, one of whom is the artist Claerwen James. In April 2012, the Australian Channel Nine programme A Current Affair...
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    upland reservoirs contained by high dams across deep valleys, such as the Claerwen series of dams and reservoirs. Stabilize water flow / irrigation Dams are...
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    released into the river for later abstraction. It is drained by the Afon Claerwen, Afon Teifi, Afon Cothi, Afon Tywi, Afon Irfon, Elan Valley, Afon Gwy,...
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    the Derwenlas Formation which can be seen for example beside the dam of Claerwen Reservoir. The Rhayader Mudstones overlie these and are to be found further...
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    they made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up a pipeline leading from the Claerwen dam in mid Wales to Birmingham. In the 1960s two movements were established...
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    over the Elenydd to Cwmystwyth and a cul-de-sac branch runs to the dam of Claerwen reservoir. It is in the community of Rhayader. Owen, H.W. and Morgan, R...
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  • Hammond sees if he can replicate a stunt the car did by heading to the Claerwen dam in Wales and using a Defender to climb to the top of it, while Margot...
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  • over a natural peat moorland, designated as a National Nature Reserve Claerwen (NNR), Site of Special Scientific Interest (Elenydd SSSI), Special Protection...
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    city of Birmingham to obtain a supply of water from the rivers Elan and Claerwen and for other purposes. Citation 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii Dates Royal assent...
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  • the Halcrow firm's attention also turned to water supply projects. The Claerwen dam opened in 1952 and, later, the Clywedog dam, helped create reservoirs...
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  • intermittently exposed in mid Wales between Cwmystwyth, Llanidloes and Claerwen reservoir. The Group comprises hundreds of metres thickness of sandstones...
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  • Claerwen Reservoir Craig-goch Reservoir Penygarreg Reservoir Garreg-ddu Reservoir Caban-coch Reservoir Talybont Reservoir Lake Vyrnwy Afon Claerwen Afon...
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    Reservoir, the largest single source of water for Birmingham until the Elan/Claerwen scheme was completed. Following the death of Charles Adderley in 1905,...
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    989°W / 52.923; -3.989 19 March 2018 329.24 hectares (813.6 acres) NRW Claerwen Ceredigion, Powys 52°18′18″N 3°43′01″W / 52.305°N 3.717°W / 52.305;...
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  • 000 NA 1972 22 Claerwen Wales Powys SN8550065100 52°16′20″N 3°40′46″W / 52.272093°N 3.6794917°W / 52.272093; -3.6794917 (Claerwen Reservoir) 48,686...
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  • largest works were typically related to water supply schemes, such as the Claerwen dam (completed in 1952) and the Clywedog dam (completed in 1967), which...
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  • Reservoir (Llyn Clywedog) Powys Dwr Cymru Welsh Water 1967 50,000,000 6 Claerwen Powys Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water 1952 48,694,000 7 Caban Coch Powys Dŵr Cymru...
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    Dulas (R) Clywedog Brook (R) Afon Aran (L) Camddwr (L) Afon Elan (R) Afon Claerwen (R) Rhiwnant (R) Afon Arban (R) Afon Claerddu (R) Afon Gwngu (R) Afon Marteg...
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  • Birmingham and parts of the West Midlands conurbation with drinking water Claerwen Reservoir Craig-goch Reservoir Penygarreg Reservoir Garreg-ddu Reservoir...
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    reservoir and reached by farm road south of the unclassified road to the Claerwen reservoir. 6715 Upload Photo Church of St Tetta, Talybont on Usk Llanddetty...
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  • city of Birmingham to obtain a supply of water from the rivers Elan and Claerwen and for other purposes. Exmouth and District Water Act 1892 55 & 56 Vict...
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    Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, National Portrait Gallery and the V&A. Claerwen James Carl Randall Stuart Pearson Wright Catherine Story "Royal Drawing...
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  • mudstones of the Derwenlas and Rhayader Mudstones formations, combined as the Claerwen Group occur in a band of country from the coast north of Llangrannog in...
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  • of the Elan valley and then southwest where its main component is the Claerwen Fault Howells, M.F. 2007 British Regional Geology: Wales (Keyworth, Nottingham:...
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    schemes. The largest group of reservoirs, are in the Elan Valley and include Claerwen. Other notable bodies of water include Bala Lake, Llyn Trawsfynydd, Lake...
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