Megawatt Valley Megawatt Valley Megawatt Valley is a term applied to a geographic location which houses a large number of electric generating stations. Historically in the United Kingdom this applied to the coal-fired power stations of the lower Trent Valley. In the mid-1980s, the valley's 13 facilities generated up to a quarter of the power demand for England and Wales. A shift to gas-fired power stations saw many of the Megawatt Valley facilities close down. The term was then associated with an area of Yorkshire centred on the River Aire that was home to Ferrybridge C, Eggborough and Drax power stations. Only
Richard Drax believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it. Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House - a Grade 1 Listed Manor House in rural Dorset. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton. Drax is the eldest son of Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax and The Hon. Pamela Weeks and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany ("cr." 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of