NPRN308973
Map ReferenceSH45NE
Grid ReferenceSH4630655107
Unitary (Local) AuthorityGwynedd
Old CountyCaernarfonshire
CommunityLlandwrog
Type Of SiteRESERVOIR
PeriodPost Medieval
DescriptionA nineteenth century(?) reservoir in Glynllifon Park, located some 330m south-west of a second, smaller example (NPRN 308974). An embanked circular stone-walled reservoir, 15m in diameter,set within a mound about 24m in diameter.
Depicted on the 1st edition OS County series (Caernarvon. XX.7 1889), the reservoir may belong to the landscaping program of the second Lord Newborough (d.1832), part of a gravity feed system for ornamental water features (see Long Text attached to NPRN 86377).
RCAHMW AP965040/65
J.Wiles 25.09.03