Famously featured on Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice
With water
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have been over that many years ago in a narrow boat, bit scary
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This is really interesting thank you for posting .
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now then treasure hunt,an all time fav prog
we used to cook what we called “Aneka Rice special” chicken stew and boiled rice
put it on a low table in the middle of the room and spread our maps on the floor and play along
quick dip in the stew and rice when we had time
we never could beat her, good fun though
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You wouldn’t get me up there
Yeah…that show passed as hi-tech in the eighties.
There was a Welsh language version on S4C
Brilliant Furryanimal fascinating stuff and that walk is one for the bucket list. It’s a pity we don’t breed engineers like Thomas Telford, Kingdom Brunel, and many others anymore. We let computers and AI take the strain now.
Thanks for posting… 
Yeah…amazing engineering
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We’ve got an aqueduct in my village although not as exciting as the Pontcysyllte one.
It passes over the river Don, and when the river is in flood the big gates at the end come down to stop the river pouring into the canal above.
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Thanks for this. It’s really interesting. I’ve been across the aqueduct on a narrow boat, and walked across it a couple of times.
A few years ago we had a mini-break nearby and stayed in the old station master’s house at Berwyn, on the Llangollen Railway. Unlimited train rides were included in the price of the accommodation. The house was next to the platform, just above the river Dee, and a view across to the Chainbridge Hotel accessed either by a road bridge, or a footbridge surprisingly called, a chain bridge.
Behind that is the cut that feeds water from the river Dee a fair old way until it reaches the aqueduct that then goes over the same river. It’s all rather incestuous don’t you think?
Berwyn Station on the Llangollen Railway. Stationmaster’s house on the right with overhanging bay window, the platform, the River Dee, the Chain Bridge, and the hotel of the same name.
The weir on the river where water is diverted into the canal system feed-cut.
The cut behind the hotel. It later becomes navigable to boats.
A bargee failing to make the T junction turn at the aqueduct end of the feed-cut.
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Fascinating 
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