Wales Underwater Graveyard

Capel is welsh for chapel while celyn is welsh for holly.

Wales underwater graveyard. The difference between a graveyard and a cemetery. This water is pretty murky so i can t see most of the stones but i just keep walking and bumping into them. Explorers battled treacherous conditions to unearth the car graveyard at the mine which shut in 1960. See more ideas about dark black aesthetic old cemeteries.

Aug 5 2019 explore empressa a s board dark followed by 118 people on pinterest. It engineer gregory rivolet was among the team who spent four hour trapsing. Dec 16 2014 underwater graveyard capel celyn wales abandoned underwater graveyard capel celyn wales. 1 5 graveyard facts 1.

Capel celyn was a rural community to the north west of bala in gwynedd wales in the afon tryweryn valley. I have a recurring nightmare about an underwater cemetery that s only in about 3 or 4 feet of water. Underwater graveyard capel celyn wales ancient redwood. Today two churches and their graveyards one of which is a quaker cemetery still remain underwater in the former village of capel celyn along with a school a post office and other flooded structures and farmlands.

The village and other parts of the valley were flooded in 1965 to create a reservoir llyn celyn in order to supply liverpool and wirral with water for industry. An eerie wwii underwater graveyard of ships still holds the remains of japanese servicemen jul 28 2018 nikola budanovic some 1 100 miles north east of new guinea lies an atoll gently tucked in by the pacific ocean and more or less secluded from the rest of the world. Despite the efforts of welsh citizens and local representatives the valley of tryweryn wales was drowned in 1965. A graveyard adjoins a church whereas a cemetery does not.

There s no way out of this flooded cemetery.