Flooding of Capel Celyn

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:affects Capel Celyn community
gptkbp:cause construction of Llyn Celyn reservoir
gptkbp:commemoratedBy memorial chapel at Llyn Celyn
gptkbp:date 1965
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Flooding of Capel Celyn
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Welsh_devolution_movement
gptkbp:legislature gptkb:Liverpool_Corporation_Act_1957
gptkbp:location gptkb:Capel_Celyn,_Wales
gptkbp:mediaCoverage extensive in Welsh and UK press
gptkbp:opposedBy Welsh nationalists
gptkbp:purpose to provide water for Liverpool and Wirral
gptkbp:resultedIn displacement of residents
destruction of Capel Celyn village
gptkbp:significance symbol of Welsh resistance
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:River_Tryweryn
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7