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Popular photographs of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct show walkers blithely passing along its narrow towpath and canal boats inching along an 11ft-wide trough as their occupants airily gaze into the far ...
I blame the wholesome TV show, Great Canal Journeys, and more recently, Wallace and Gromit’s animation Vengeance Most Fowl, ...
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal World Heritage Site also goes far beyond the huge bridge which people paddle across that you might have seen pictures and videos of, and actually encompasses 11 ...
The aqueduct carries the Llangollen Canal in a 1,007ft-long cast iron trough suspended 126ft above the Dee Valley. As the structure has more than 11,000 bolts, checking them all is never a quick ...
Without intervention the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct risks losing some of its original charm and historical significance." For the current check-up the Trust had to raise more than £185,000 to do the work.
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct near Wrexham was first recognised by UNESCO in 2009 which granted it the same status as Stonehenge and the Pyramids. With half a million visitors last year, ...
Pontcysyllte aqueduct, known as "the stream in the sky" is part of a Unesco world heritage site. While Telford's aqueduct took 10 years to design and build before being finished in 1805, ...
A spokesman said: "We were called at 10.06am today, June 29 to a concern for safety incident at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct near Trevor. "Sadly the body of a man was found nearby.
A teenager fell from a 126ft aqueduct when an upright railing "came away in his hands", an inquest has heard. Kristopher McDowell, 18, from Cefn Mawr, Wrexham, died on 31 May 2016, after falling ...
The size of the gaps in a safety railing on an aqueduct where a teenager fell to his death are to be reviewed. Kristopher McDowell, 18, from Cefn Mawr, Wrexham, fell from Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in ...
Kristopher John McDowell, 18, fell from the 120ft-high Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wrexham in the early hours of May 31 last year ...