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    The Llangollen Canal (Welsh: Camlas Llangollen) is a navigable canal crossing the border between England and Wales. The waterway links Llangollen in Denbighshire...
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    Llangollen (Welsh: [ɬaŋˈɡɔɬɛn] ) is a town and community, situated on the River Dee, in Denbighshire, Wales. Its riverside location forms the edge of the...
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    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (category Llangollen Canal)
    Pontcysyllte) is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen in northeast Wales. The 18-arched stone and...
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    section is now called the Llangollen Canal; even though historically its builders had no intention of sending boat traffic to Llangollen. The branch, from which...
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    The Shropshire Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches...
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    Llangollen Canal Museum is a Grade II listed building in Llangollen. Listed by Cadw (Reference Number 1225) and thought to have been built between 1804...
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    Scotland Llangollen Canal Museum, North Wales London Canal Museum, Kings Cross, London Portland Basin Museum, Manchester Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, Northamptonshire...
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    in eastern Powys and northwest Shropshire. The canal runs 33 miles (53 km) from the Llangollen Canal at Frankton Junction to Newtown via Llanymynech...
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    Dee and the Llangollen Canal. It is situated on the main A5 road which runs from London to Holyhead. It is in the community of Llangollen Rural. The population...
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  • Great Canal Journeys is a British television series in which a pair of presenters take canal barge and narrowboat trips in the United Kingdom, Europe,...
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  • a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal. An example is the Horseshoe Falls at the start of the Llangollen Canal. Historically the...
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    Avon Canal, Wiltshire The Llangollen Canal traverses the longest and highest aqueduct in Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom The Corinth Canal seen from...
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    Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, of 1805, which carries the Llangollen Canal 120 feet (37 m) overhead. Less than a mile east of the aqueduct at...
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    The Canal & River Trust (CRT), branded as Glandŵr Cymru in Wales, holds the guardianship of 2,000 miles of canals and rivers, together with reservoirs...
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    Horseshoe Falls (Wales) (category Llangollen Canal)
    town of Llangollen. The distinctively shaped weir, which is 460 feet (140 m) long, helps create a pool of water that can enter the Llangollen Canal (via...
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    Chirk Aqueduct (category Llangollen Canal)
    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,...
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    Cefn Mawr Viaduct. There is also a canal tunnel at Chirk. The main canal is the Llangollen Canal from Llangollen which travels to Chirk before entering...
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    Chirk Tunnel (category Llangollen Canal)
    Chirk Tunnel is a canal tunnel near Chirk, Wales. It lies on the Llangollen Canal, immediately northwards of the Chirk Aqueduct. It is 421 metres (460 yd)...
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    The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation)...
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    Pontcysyllte aqueduct, on the Llangollen Canal, built in 1801 by Thomas Telford. The Glyn Valley Tramway terminated on the canal near the mainline railway...
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    raised by Thomas Telford to provide water for the Ellesmere Canal (later Llangollen Canal). The town of Bala, which was once an important centre for the...
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    transported to wider markets when the Whitchurch Arm of Thomas Telford's Llangollen Canal was opened in 1811. The railway station was opened in 1858 on the first...
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  • Thumbnail for Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve
    former Ellesmere Canal, now rebranded as the Llangollen Canal, crosses the peat, and Bettisfield Moss lies to the south of the canal, partly in England...
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    Navigable aqueduct (category Canals)
    completed the far more ambitious Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales on the Llangollen Canal over the River Dee valley, with a total length 307 metres and a height...
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  • 9 September 2022 (2022-09-09) 1.88 28 "Episode 2" Grayling, dace / River Dee & Llangollen Canal, North Wales 16 September 2022 (2022-09-16) N/A 29 "Episode 3" Fishing...
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  • Thumbnail for Ellesmere, Shropshire
    beside the Llangollen Canal with a short side arm reaching the town centre wharf. The canal eventually terminates just outside Llangollen at Llantysilio...
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    Museum, Devizes, Wiltshire Linlithgow Canal Centre, Scotland Llangollen Canal Museum, North Wales London Canal Museum, Kings Cross, London Portland Basin...
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    River Weaver (category Canals in England)
    Shropshire. The first of three canal crossings occurs just before the village of Wrenbury, when the Llangollen Canal crosses its course. After flowing...
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    Common Craignant Chirk Castle Llangollen Canal Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (World Heritage Site) over the River Dee Trevor Llangollen Castle Eglwyseg Crags Llandegla...
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    disappeared the area has a rich industrial archeology. Trevor lies on the Llangollen Canal at the northern end of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct: the Trevor Basin...
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