by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 30, 2025 | River of the Month, Uncategorized
Afon Wysg (River Usk) Follow Setpember 2025 Encouraged by cooling autumnal water temperatures and stronger river flows, a remarkable species of fish will shortly begin its annual migration upstream to spawn in rivers across Wales. To give their offspring the best...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Aug 21, 2025 | River of the Month, Uncategorized
Afon Efyrnwy (River Vyrnwy) Follow August 2025 In 1888, the shattered remains of a once thriving village in mid-Wales were enveloped by the rising waters of a new lake. Formed by the damming of the river Vyrnwy (Afon Efyrnwy), the reservoir had been built to supply...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Nov 28, 2024 | River of the Month, Uncategorized
Afon Aeron Follow November 2024 Very few rivers have escaped physical modification by humans at some point in their history. In Britain, less than 1% are free of artificial barriers. Many have also had sections straightened, culverted or their banks re-enforced with...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 25, 2024 | River of the Month
Afon Teifi Follow September 2024 In six glacial llyns high on the western side of the Cambrian Mountains begins what has often been described as the longest river entirely in Wales. From Llyn Teifi, the Afon Teifi flows in a westerly direction, past the remains of the...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Aug 29, 2024 | River of the Month
Afon Irfon Follow August 2024 On 11 December 1282 near Cilmeri in mid Wales, a soldier serving Edward I ran a Welsh combatant through with his lance. At the time Stephen de Frankton was unaware that the person he had just fatally injured was Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jun 28, 2024 | River of the Month
Afon Rhondda Follow June 2024 From the high plateau of Blaenau Morgannwg in Glamorgan, the two deep and steep-sided glacial valleys drop sharply to the south east in the direction of Wales’s capital, Cardiff. Within them flow two of the South Wales’s...
