Pontcysyllte iron navigable aqueduct
Acueducto navegable de hierro de Pontcysyllte
- Date
- 1795-1805 · confidence high
- Place
- Trevor, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Thomas Telford and William Jessop
- Field
- Movement
What it is
An aqueduct about 307 m long and 38 m high over the River Dee, with a cast-iron trough on hollow masonry piers. It let the Llangollen Canal cross a valley without locks.
Jessop was chief engineer and Telford resident engineer; credit is usually leaned toward Telford.
What it led to
- level canals across valleys
- structural use of cast iron in civil works
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (2009)