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The Best Attractions In Rhayader

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Rhayader is a market town, community and electoral ward in Radnorshire, Powys, central Wales. The town is one of the principal centres of population in the mostly Anglicised historic county of Radnorshire and has a population of 2,088. 55% of the community have some form of Welsh identity according to the 2011 census.It is the first town on the banks of the River Wye, 20 miles from its source on the Plynlimon range of the Cambrian Mountains. It is situated roughly midway between North and south Wales on the A470, 13 miles north of Builth Wells and 30 miles east of Aberystwyth on the A44 - two of Wales' most important trunk roads.
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  • 1. Elan Valley Rhayader
    The Elan Valley Reservoirs 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 built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department, provide clean drinking water for Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. The five lakes are known as the Claerwen, Craig-goch, Pen-y-garreg, Garreg-ddu, and Caban-coch.Water from the reservoirs is carried by gravity to Frankley Reservoir in Birmingham via the Elan aqueduct. Pumping is not required because the network drops 52 metres along its 73 miles length from its source to Frankley. A gradient of 1:2300 maintains a flow of less than 2 miles per hour ; water takes two and a half to three days to reach Birmingham. The aqueduct, which was started in 1896 and opene...
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  • 6. Rhayader Museum and Gallery Rhayader
    Rhayader is a market town, community and electoral ward in Radnorshire, Powys, central Wales. The town is one of the principal centres of population in the mostly Anglicised historic county of Radnorshire and has a population of 2,088. 55% of the community have some form of Welsh identity according to the 2011 census.It is the first town on the banks of the River Wye, 20 miles from its source on the Plynlimon range of the Cambrian Mountains. It is situated roughly midway between North and south Wales on the A470, 13 miles north of Builth Wells and 30 miles east of Aberystwyth on the A44 - two of Wales' most important trunk roads.
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  • 7. Valley View Rhayader Rhayader
    The Elan Valley Reservoirs 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 built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department, provide clean drinking water for Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. The five lakes are known as the Claerwen, Craig-goch, Pen-y-garreg, Garreg-ddu, and Caban-coch.Water from the reservoirs is carried by gravity to Frankley Reservoir in Birmingham via the Elan aqueduct. Pumping is not required because the network drops 52 metres along its 73 miles length from its source to Frankley. A gradient of 1:2300 maintains a flow of less than 2 miles per hour ; water takes two and a half to three days to reach Birmingham. The aqueduct, which was started in 1896 and opene...
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  • 11. Cader Idris Dolgellau
    Cadair Idris or Cader Idris is a mountain in Gwynedd, Wales, which lies at the southern end of the Snowdonia National Park near the town of Dolgellau. The peak, which is one of the most popular in Wales for walkers and hikers, is composed largely of Ordovician igneous rocks, with classic glacial erosion features such as cwms, moraines, striated rocks, and roches moutonnées.
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  • 12. Portmeirion Village Portmeirion
    Portmeirion is a tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village, and is now owned by a charitable trust. The village is located in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth, on the estuary of the River Dwyryd, 2 miles south east of Porthmadog, and 1 mile from Minffordd railway station. Portmeirion has served as the location for numerous films and television shows, and was The Village in the 1960s television show The Prisoner.
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  • 13. Gloucester Cathedral Gloucester
    Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter .
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