Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake), Bala, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
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N 52° 53.111 W 003° 37.126
30U E 458364 N 5859677
Bala Lake (Welsh: Llyn Tegid) is a large lake in Gwynedd, Wales. It was the largest natural body of water in Wales prior to the level being raised by Thomas Telford to help support the flow of the Ellesmere Canal.
Waymark Code: WMEKHP
Location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/09/2012
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"Bala Lake (Welsh: Llyn Tegid) is a large lake in Gwynedd, Wales. It was the largest natural body of water in Wales prior to the level being raised by Thomas Telford to help support the flow of the Ellesmere Canal.
It is 4 miles (6.4 km) long by 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, and is subject to sudden and dangerous floods. The River Dee runs through it and the waters of the lake are famously deep and clear. The town of Bala sits at its northern end and the narrow gauge Bala Lake Railway runs for several kilometres along the lake's southern shore.
George Borrow wrote of the lake in Wild Wales in 1856, "The lake has certainly not its name, which signifies 'Lake of Beauty', for nothing". The Welsh name for the town of Bala is 'Y Bala', which sits at the eastern end of the lake. A 'bala' signifies either an 'outlet' or else perhaps 'an isthmus between two lakes or areas of wet ground'. The Welsh name includes the personal name 'Tegid'. An older now redundant English name for the lake is Pemble Mere or Pimble Mere - many variant spellings are recorded."
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The coordinates are for a layby near its centre of the lake on the south side.