E: 18/05 Win A Luxury Break On Dartmoor (Help Pls)

Lakshmi7

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hamsterfan1

it looks like Lake Bala

MimiJane

One night only for 2 peeps ...

akm2018

I'm of the mind it's not Lake Bala at all, I think it's Llyn Trawsfynydd (also in Snowdonia). My evidence / reasoning:

The clue: 'This watery spot in the heart of a national park has both hidden depths and cultural roots. It's a place associated with poetry and power, and can be found "amid mountains".'

* Llyn Trawsfynydd is a lake in the middle of Snowdonia National Park
* It is a partly-artificial lake made by drowning a valley ('hidden depths and cultural roots'?)
* There's a war memorial with a poem to local men killed in WWI ('poetry')
* It was flooded for hydroelectrical power generation and then later the late water was also used for cooling a nuclear power station ('power')
* Trawsfynydd means 'amid mountains'

Facts courtesy of https://www.discoveringbritain.org/activities/wales/viewpoints/lake-trawsfynydd.html, where I think they got their clueing from

Finally this Google Streetview link shows the power station, which is the same structure seen on the competition page, I think:

https://goo.gl/maps/WocyrCASzm82

Can't get the exact same angle on streetview, after all the editor was rambling not driving, but it's near enough that I'm convinced.