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Llangollen Bridge in 2014 A painting of Llangollen Bridge in 1793. Llangollen Bridge is built across the River Dee at the North end of the high street of Llangollen in the county of Denbighshire in North-east Wales. The Bridge is listed as one of the seven wonders of Wales [1] and is a Grade I listed building.
The bridge is 336 yd (307 m) long, 12 ft (3.7 m) wide and 5 ft 3 in (1.60 ... In 1808 a feeder channel to bring water from the River Dee near Llangollen was completed.
Llangollen (Welsh: [ɬaŋˈɡɔɬɛn] ⓘ) is a town and community, situated on the River Dee, in Denbighshire, Wales.Its riverside location forms the edge of the Berwyn range, and the Dee Valley section of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with the easternmost point of the Dee Valley Way being within the town.
Starks Bridge is another wooden lift bridge, and as well as being grade II* listed, is a scheduled ancient monument. [77] It is a rare example of a skewed lift bridge. [78] Dobson's Bridge, a fixed humpback bridge made of red bricks with an elliptical arch, was classified in 1987 as a Grade Il listed building. [79]
The Chain Bridge is a footbridge over the River Dee at Berwyn, Llangollen, Denbighshire, north Wales. Is owned by Llangollen Town Council and a pathway from Berwyn railway station , now part of the Llangollen Railway , leads under a subway and down to the bridge and to the Chain Bridge Hotel on the other side.
Means "Neck of the Lake"; first bridge before rerouting of river, now marooned Dee Bridge, Bala 52°54′11″N 3°35′34″W / 52.9030°N 3.5929°W / 52.9030; -3.5929 ( Dee Bridge
"Bridge of the works" - referring to nearby ironworks. [112] Betws y Coed, Pont-y-Pair: 1468: II* Caernarfonshire Conwy "Bridge of the cauldron". [113] Pontypridd, Old Bridge: 1756: I: Glamorgan Rhondda Cynon Taf Built by William Edwards, at 140 ft (43 m) the longest single-span bridge in Great Britain for 40 years. [114] Pont y Werin: 2010 ...
Chirk Aqueduct is a 70-foot (21 m) high and 710-foot (220 m) long navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England–Wales border, spanning the two countries.