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The estuary of the 28-mile Afon Mawddach (River Mawddach) which runs alongside the town of Barmouth, in Gwynedd, North Wales.
The Mawddach has been the site of significant industrialisation and land management. Gold mining and subsequently gold panning have had major impacts but forestry, the preparation of animal skins, the storage of old munitions and the use of hillsides as artillery ranges have all added to the legacy of pollution.
The river is also very flashy - prone to very rapid rise and fall in level depending on rainfall. Rainfall can also be very heavy, and it falls on very base-poor soils leading to episodes of strongly depressed hydrogen. Despite this, the river sustains an important salmon and trout fishery and the countryside through which it flows is some of the most spectacular and scenic in the UK.
The southern bank of the Mawddach estuary, along which used to run a section of the GWR branch line from Ruabon to Barmouth, has now been designated the Mawddach Trail, an 8-mile cycle path running from Dolgellau to Morfa Mawddach, at the south side of the Barmouth railway bridge. It is managed by the Snowdonia National Park Authority as a leisure route for walkers and cyclists and is part of the Sustrans Cross-Wales Cycling Route.
The estuary of the Mawddach was a great centre of ship building in the 18th century and probably for some centuries before. There is no evidence remaining of this activity in the estuary today.
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afon_Mawddach
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The estuary of the 28-mile Afon Mawddach (River Mawddach) which runs alongside the town of Barmouth, in Gwynedd, North Wales.
The Mawddach has been the site of significant industrialisation and land management. Gold mining and subsequently gold panning have had major impacts but forestry, the preparation of animal skins, the storage of old munitions and the use of hillsides as artillery ranges have all added to the legacy of pollution.
The river is also very flashy - prone to very rapid rise and fall in level depending on rainfall. Rainfall can also be very heavy, and it falls on very base-poor soils leading to episodes of strongly depressed hydrogen. Despite this, the river sustains an important salmon and trout fishery and the countryside through which it flows is some of the most spectacular and scenic in the UK.
The southern bank of the Mawddach estuary, along which used to run a section of the GWR branch line from Ruabon to Barmouth, has now been designated the Mawddach Trail, an 8-mile cycle path running from Dolgellau to Morfa Mawddach, at the south side of the Barmouth railway bridge. It is managed by the Snowdonia National Park Authority as a leisure route for walkers and cyclists and is part of the Sustrans Cross-Wales Cycling Route.
The estuary of the Mawddach was a great centre of ship building in the 18th century and probably for some centuries before. There is no evidence remaining of this activity in the estuary today.
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afon_Mawddach