Ffynnon Lloer

Ffynnon Lloer
Location	Snowdonia, North Wales
Coordinates	53°8′21″N 4°0′4″W / 53.13917°N 4.00111°WCoordinates: 53°8′21″N 4°0′4″W / 53.13917°N 4.00111°W
Type	natural
Primary outflows	Afon Lloer
Basin countries	United Kingdom
Surface area	6 acres (2.43 ha)

Ffynnon Lloer (Welsh : Source of [the] Moon) is a lake in the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, North Wales. It lies below the peaks of Pen yr Ole Wen and Carnedd Dafydd at a height of 2,225 feet (678 m) and covers an area of some 6 acres (2.43 ha).

The remains of two wartime aircraft, which crashed in 1942 and 1943, lie on the slopes round the lake.^[1]

Afon Lloer, its outflow, flows into Llyn Ogwen.

References

1. Nick Wotherspoon; Alan Clark; Mark Sheldon (2009). Aircraft Wrecks: The Walker's Guide : Historic Crash Sites on the Moors and Mountains of the British Isles. Casemate Publishers. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-1-84415-910-9.