The harshly magnificent landscape of the Elan Valley in Mid Wales was changed utterly in the late 1890s by a reservoir building project initiated by the Corporation of Birmingham in order to supply water to that expanding city. A great feat of civil engineering, the project required the flooding of land by the River Elan and the compensating of local landowners; but also made a tremendous impact on the traditions, rights and privileges of the local commoners, and on a flock system of hill farming that had existed for hundreds of years.
Originally published in 1969,
The Valley is Elizabeth Clarke's account of hill farming life in the Elan Valley and the massive changes wrought upon it between the first period of reservoir construction and a subsequent project that followed the Second World War.
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Publisher
Faber & FabereBook ISBN
9780571296958
Year
2012Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- 1 : The Hafod
- 2 : Country Holiday
- 3 : Summer Country
- 4 : Up Street
- 5 : Radnorshire Jam
- 6 : Winter
- 7 : Jenny
- 8 : Our Man
- 9 : A View from the Heights
- 10 : The Edge of Night
- 11 : Drawing for Home
- 12 : No More Flummery
- 13 : Carnival
- 14 : Across the River
- 15 : Minky
- 16 : The House Under the Water
- Copyright