Monday 21 January 2008

Llangollen


A narrow section of the Llangollen Canal winding round the hillside above the town of Llangollen (North Wales) is the location of the first photo on this blog to be outside England.

This section of canal was built as a water supply feeder from the River Dee at Horseshoe Falls to the former Ellesmere Canal at Trevor. It is one of several sections where the canal is too narrow for boats to pass. These narrows create bottlenecks at the height of the boating season!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Absolutely Terrific, please keep up the good works.

Meg said...

We were on the Llangollen Canal in '69 when the water level was very low and we frequently had to clear the propellor of weeds. I remember climbing Castell Dinas Bran (the hill in the background of this photo) on a boiling hot August day