Trevor Canal Basin Llangollen Canal Froncysyllte Wrexham North Wales UK
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wrexham in north east Wales. Completed in 1805, it is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain, a Grade I Listed Building and a World Heritage Site. When the bridge was built it linked the villages of Froncysyllte, at the southern end of the bridge in the Cysyllte township of Llangollen parish and Trevor, at the northern end of the bridge in the Trevor Isaf township of Llangollen parish. Both townships were later transferred to Wrexham County Borough following local government reorganisation. The aqueduct, built by Thomas Telford and William Jessop, is 1,007 ft (307 m) long, 11 ft ( m) wide and ft ( m) 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). Each span is 53 ft (16 m) wide.
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Location: Froncysyllte Wrexham North Wales UK
Photo credit: © Jon Lewis / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: aqueduct, canal, heritage, llangollen, pontcysyllte, telford, thomas, world
