Cardiff Bay Barrage (Morglawdd Bae Caerdydd)

Watson proposed building a barrage stretching across the mouth of Cardiff Bay from Cardiff Docks to Penarth, which would impound freshwater from the rivers Ely and Taff to create a large freshwater lake, thus providing permanent high water.

It's not possible to drive across the barrage.

Cardiff – in Welsh 'Caerdydd' – is the capital city of Wales and is located on the Southern coast of Wales.

As Cardiff exports grew, so did its population; dockworkers and sailors from across the world settled in neighbourhoods close to the docks, known as Tiger Bay, and communities from up to 50 different nationalities, including Norwegian, Somali, Yemeni, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Caribbean and Irish helped create the ...