Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Today Roger, Jen and I went into Wales to see the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, which carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee, between the villages of Trevor and Froncysyllte, in north east Wales. Completed in 1805, it is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain and a World Heritage Site. The name means junction or link bridge. The aqueduct was built by Thomas Telford and William Jessop, and is 1,007 ft long, 11 ft and 5.25 ft deep. It consists of a cast iron trough supported 126 ft (38 m) above the river on iron arched ribs carried on nineteen hollow masonry piers (pillars). We walked across it and along the canal on the far side for a little way, then I took a number of photos around the Trevor canal basin at the northern and of the aqueduct, which is the terminus of the Shropshire Union Canal, and junction with the short spur which leads to Llangollen. Then we drove into Llangollen and had a wander round there.