In 2018, the BBC made freely available for non-commercial use around 16,000 of its sound effects recordings. A few hundred come from known locations around the UK, and most of those have been presented here in a sound map. All recordings © BBC.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Cwm Orr falls, North Wales.
BBC DESCRIPTION: 'Pystyll Rhadn' falls, North Wales, with birdsong.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Atmospheres, Summer: Woodland, North Wales. (Technical note, to be played at low level.)
BBC DESCRIPTION: Pumped-storage power generation. Dinorwic hydro-electric station control room. [Current official spelling is 'Dinorwig'.]
BBC DESCRIPTION: Pumped-storage power generation. Dinorwic hydro-electric station machine hall.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Blaenau Festiniog [sic] light railway, steam train starts and runs.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Blaenau Festiniog [sic] light railway, steam train passes through woodland with whistle.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Blaenau Ffestiniog light railway, steam train arrives and stops.