River Adda (Wales)
river in Wales, United Kingdom
River Adda (Afon Adda in Welsh) is a small watercourse which flows through the city of Bangor in North Wales before discharging into the Menai Strait at Hirael Bay, opposite Porth Penrhyn. The name is said to be of 19th-century origin, deriving from a field Cae Mab Adda ("the field of the son of Adam") close to its source. Its earlier name was Tarannon.
Lôn Las Adda (a foot and cycle path) follows closely the course of the river for much of its length. By this path at Glynne Road can be seen the sides of an old bridge.
Now for the most part culverted, parts of the river were open until the 1960s. The last section, from Glynne Road to Beach Road was culverted prior to the building of the nearby swimming pool.
Following flooding in the Caernarfon Road area in 2004, a flood alleviation scheme was carried out by the (then) Environment Agency Wales to improve the culverting. Work was completed in 2008.
In 2016 Dr Zoe Skoulding and Ben Stammers ran a project called rAdda, which was supported by a number of statutory and other bodies.
“River Adda (Wales)” enters the record as river in Wales, United Kingdom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what River, Adda and Wales can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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