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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

14/6/2016

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​We visited the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales on 29 May 2016 after staying the night before in nearby Wrexham.

The Aqueduct carries the Llangollen Canal over a valley in which runs the River Dee. Completed in 1805 it is the longest and highest Aqueduct in the United Kingdom.

It was built by Thomas Telford and William Jessop and is 307m long 3.7m wide and consists of a cast iron trough supported on eighteen masonry pillars with 16m spans 38m above the river.
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Originally the aqueduct was part of the Ellesmere Canal and the work was undertaken by Telford under the supervision of Jessop. The iron was supplied by William Hazledine from his foundries in Shrewsbury and Cefn Mawr. It opened on 26 November 1805 having taken some ten years to design and build at a cost of £47,000.
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View of the Aqueduct through the trees.
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Masonry pillars taking the aqueduct across the valey
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Walking across the aqueduct. The tow path used by horses to pull the barges is just on one side. On the other side is a shear drop to the river below.
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Half way across - View of the River Dee from the aqueduct looking Sout.h
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half way across - View from the aqueduct looking North. An old road bridge across the river can be seen in the distance.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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