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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
Aqueduct NamePontcysyllte Aqueduct
Infoboxwidth180px
CarriesLlangollen Canal
CrossesRiver Dee
LocationFroncysyllte
Os Grid ReferenceSJ270420
MaintainedBritish Waterways
DesignerThomas Telford
Material1Cast iron
Material2Brick
Number SpansEighteen
Piers In WaterFour
Length1,007 ft (307 m)
Width11 ft (3.4 m)
Height126 ft (38 m)
PassableNo
TowpathEast side
Open1805
HeritageGrade 1
Coordinates 

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The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (-cyˌpɔntkəˈsəɬtɛ, full name in ) 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 (from where it takes its name ), 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 name is in the Welsh language and means "Cysyllte Bridge". For most of its existence it was known as ("Bridge of Cysyllte"). Other translations such as "Bridge of the Junction" or "The Bridge that links" are modern, and incorrect, inventions, from the literal English translation of being "junctions" or "links".


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