Water company to sell Welsh haven for birds
The Vyrnwy Estate in the Cambrian mountains of Wales surrounds Lake Vyrnwy, a reservoir built in 1892 by the Liverpool Corporation to supply water to the city.
The land – a popular tourist destination which includes several sites of special scientific interest, conservation areas and a nature reserve – is being split into four lots by property consultant Knight Frank, which hopes to fetch 11m. The biggest of these includes 12,000 acres of land farmed jointly with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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Hide AdThe Lake Vyrnwy reservoir itself was the largest in Europe when it was built.
Clive Hopkins, Knight Frank's head of farm and estate sales, said: "Never before has a property of this size come to the open market in one block under a single ownership, not in my lifetime anyway."