A TRIBUTE to a rural village which was controversially flooded more than 50 years has appeared on an iconic Wrexham landmark.
'Cofiwch Dryweryn' has been written into the Bersham slag heap near Rhostyllen, captured by Leader photographer Craig Colville.
The words translate to ‘Remember Tryweryn’ and are in tribute to Capel Celyn, a rural village which was controversially flooded by the UK Government in 1965 to create a reservoir to provide water for the city of Liverpool and the Wirral.
The village, submerged beneath a lake in the Tryweryn Valley above Bala, reappeared as water levels fell during a drought last year.
The original Cofiwch Dryweryn mural near Aberystwyth was vandalised last month, leading to similar tributes being created all over Wales.
One example was Adam Balchder, from Corwen, who painted ’Cofiwch Dryweryn’ on what he described as derelict blocks alongside the A494 in Deeside, before it was removed by the Welsh Government.
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