Help me find this place in north wales.

[MrsMotherHen]

As children we used to go chirk alot and on the way back we would visit a lake? a pond? a river? a fishery? and have a paddle. I have googled all morning and rung family members and still no luck.

It was like a pool top with very distinctive waterfall in the shape of wide 2 or 3 stairs ending into a little river section?

Does anybody have any clue its driving me potty. Its not swallow falls or any of the more popular falls in northwales. It was more man made looking.....

help?

Where were you going back to? There's a place at Bersham that looks similar to what you describe.

going back to the Wirral (near liverpool)

Somewhere between Chirk and...? Horseshoe falls is a weir not far from there.

Sorry i don't know it's name but i know where you mean. I used to walk past while DH steeredour narrow boat. It is between Chirk Marina and in the Llangollen direction , visible from the canal. Google maps? Or phone Chirk marina and ask? Happy memories.

Ah, sorry, I was slow typing there (eating Maltesers in bed at the same time).

There’s a waterfall in Llanberis that only locals really know about as it’s off the beaten track. It has a pool at the bottom but it’s a pretty dangerous place to paddle.
Another is along the coast between Conwy and Bangor called Aber fall, in abergwyngregin. It’s a steady easy walk up from a small carpark.... about a mile on well maintained path. At the end the waterfall is thin but high. You can paddle in sections of the river nearby.

Dyserth Falls?

So you might have gone through Wrexham then.

Sorry, I’m thinking too far west as you mentioned Betws.

Ah, labelle I grew up in dyserth! Wouldn’t want to play in the pool at the bottom (or top) though!

I lived in that area and kayaked...
Chip shop drop - in the centre of Betws y coed
Pont Cyfyng
Browns falls
Fairy glen
Falls just to the east of the Watkins path on snowdon
Conwy falls

Just ideas....

How about Loggerheads?

Is browns falls cobdens bridge eddy

Ceunant Mawr is the falls in llanberris that GreenOr mentioned...big falls at the end but the track up has lots of little ones with a weir section when the water flows over seceral sleepers/railways...theres a big pool at the end which is lush for swimming in.

No...cobdens is next to the hotel and jist upstream of a rickery metal bridge. Browns is behind Joe Browns climbing shop or the cafe on the turning to Plas y Brenin/Snowdon at the end of capel curig.

Betys coed?

If it is man made it could be the cup and saucer falls at erddig?

Aber Falls and Llanberis are not on the way back to the Wirral from Chirk.

Llangollen, Wrexham and then Chester were on your way home Op (as you know) but I cannot think where it was.

World's End?

I know maiden I posted those suggestions before op said where she was going back to.

I didn’t realise you could paddle that section eddy

Ellesmere lake!

I wonder if it is this place?

Chester Lakes

It sounds similar to one I've paddled at in Betwsycoed. Don't know whether that's geographically right though. I suspect there's a few round there.

Another vote for Llangollen