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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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navigable aqueduct in Wales
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct appears in Vinony's UNESCO World Heritage collection — one of 3,384 entries.
Within Vinony's link graph, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is referenced by 487 other articles, and connects out to Isycoed, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and Rhosllanerchrugog.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark.
It is catalogued under topics including 1805 establishments in Wales, Bridges across the River Dee, Wales and Bridges by Thomas Telford.
Key facts
- Os grid reference
- SJ270420
- Carries
- Llangollen Canal
- Crosses
- River Dee
- Locale
- Froncysyllte , Wrexham , Wales
- Maintained by
- Glandŵr Cymru – the Canal & River Trust
- Heritage status
- Grade I listed
- Trough construction
- Cast iron
- Pier construction
- Stone
- Total length
- 336 yd (307 m)
- Width
- 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
- Height
- 127 ft (39 m)
- Water depth
- 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
- Traversable
- Yes
- Towpaths
- East side
- Designer
- Thomas Telford
- Construction start
- 25 July 1795
- Opened
- 26 November 1805
- Official name
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aqueduct
- Part of
- Llangollen Canal
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Llangollen Rural
- Area
- 105
- Elevation
- 63.6
- Material used
- cast iron
- Location
- Llangollen
- Designed by
- Thomas Telford
- Official website
- www.pontcysyllte-aqueduct.co.uk
- Image
- Pontcysyllte aqueduct arp.jpg
- Height
- 40
- Length
- 307
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- start time
- 1805-11-26
- number of spans
- 18
- architect
- William Jessop
- Commons category
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
- located in/on physical feature
- Llangollen Canal
- crosses
- River Dee
- carries thoroughfare
- Llangollen Canal
- historic county
- Denbighshire
- P12749
- Bundesautobahn 270
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct ( Welsh pronunciation: [ˌpɔntkəˈsəɬtɛ]; Welsh: Traphont Ddŵr Pontcysyllte) is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen in northeast Wales.
The 19-arched stone and cast iron structure is for use by narrowboats and was completed in 1805 having taken ten years to design and build. It is 12 feet (3.7 metres) wide and is the longest aqueduct in Great Britain as well as the highest canal aqueduct in the world. A towpath runs alongside the watercourse on one side.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pontcysyllte Aqueduct” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.