In Popular Culture
- Elizabeth Clarke wrote The Valley (published by Faber & Faber, 1969) an account of Welsh hill farming life in the valley between the two main periods of construction. Many references are made to the dams, as well as an account of the later enquiry from the hill farmers' point of view.
- Francis Brett Young researched the Elan Valley as the basis for his novel The House under the Water imagining how the scene may have appeared in 1887.
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