Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Walk

Leave the main car park by the exit at the south end.  The path here is on the route of the Ruabon Brook Railway.  At the entrance to the Trevor Basin site, take the left hand path.

Once you reach the aqueduct, there is the option to turn around and walk the same route back. Or continue for another half mile as far as Froncysyllte lime kilns. 

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, completed in November 1805, is a 19 span cast-iron aqueduct on tapering masonry piers, is 1,007ft long with a maximum height of 126ft above the Dee.  The trough is formed from plates one inch thick, the joints made watertight with flannel impregnated with white lead. Supporting each 44ft span are four ribs, cast in three sections, bolted together with connecting plates, the outermost ribs being infilled to give the impression of a solid span.  

The name Pontcysyllte, literally ‘the bridge which joins’.