Llangollen, North Wales - where Wales welcomes the World

Claimed to be the greatest engineering feat of its type in the world, the Pontcysllte Aqueduct was built by Thomas Telford between 1795 and 1805.

It has an entire length of 1,007 feet and spans the entire Dee Valley on 18 mighty stone piers of exceptionally fine construction using local Cefn sandstone. There are a total of 19 arches, each spanning 45 feet and the water is carried in a cast iron trough whose sections were bolted together and sealed using lead and Welsh flannel.

Pontcysllte Aqueduct The total cost of this magnificent structure was £47,000 18s 0d and thankfully, considering the building techniques of the time, only one man was killed during its whole construction.

Today you can either walk over the aqueduct along the path constructed for the working horses or hire a canal barge and take boat trip 126 feet above the fast flowing River Dee.

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Llangollen
Denbighshire
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