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Region: Denbighshire • Shropshire • Wrexham • Llangollen Rural • Weston Rhyn
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Region: Denbighshire • Shropshire • Wrexham • Llangollen Rural • Weston Rhyn
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The Stream in the sky walk takes you along two aquaducts of the Llangollen Canal. One of them is the longest and highest aquaduct in Britain.
Most of the path is car free.
Most of the path is car free.
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Horseshoe Falls (distance from start: 0.72 km / 0.45 miles)
Horseshoe Falls
Llantysilio
Horseshoe Falls is an artificially created waterfall on the River Dee near Llantysilio Hall in Denbighshire, Wales, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the town of Llangollen. The distinctively shaped weir helps create a pool of water that can enter (via an adjacent valve house and flow meter) the Llangollen Canal, which begins here, and was originally designed and constructed in 1808 by civil engineer Thomas Telford. It is 460 feet (140 m) long.
Llangollen Motor Museum (distance from start: 1.78 km / 1.11 miles)
Llangollen Motor Museum
Llantysilio
The Llangollen Motor Museum features a large collection of Parts, Automobilia, Memorabilia and collectables of all kinds. There are also items of more general interest including books, tools and bric a brac. Here you can see the star Car "Humphrey" 1962 Triumph TR 4 Winner of many Concours and the New Imperial Motor Cycle offered practical every day transport in 1935.
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod (distance from start: 3.26 km / 2.03 miles)
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
Llangollen
The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is a music festival which takes place every year during the second week of July. A famous performer at Llangollen was Luciano Pavarotti. He competed here in 1955 with his father and a choir from their home town Modena.
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (distance from start: 10.52 km / 6.53 miles)
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
Llangollen Rural
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wrexham. Completed in 1805, it is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain. The aqueduct was inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List alongside previously inscribed sites such as the Taj Mahal, Great Wall of China and Stonehenge.
Chirk Aqueduct (distance from start: 16.64 km / 10.34 miles)
Chirk Aqueduct
Weston Rhyn
Chirk Aqueduct is a 21 m high and 220 m long navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England-Wales border. The aqueduct was designed by Thomas Telford for the Ellesmere Canal and completed in 1801.
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