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Ellesmere Canal

canal, Wales, United Kingdom

Also known as: Llangollen Canal

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Telford

In Thomas Telford
…agent and engineer to the Ellesmere Canal Company. His two great aqueducts, which carry this canal over the Ceiriog and Dee valleys in Wales at Chirk and Pontcysyllte (Pont Cysylltau), employed a novel use of troughs of cast-iron plates fixed in the masonry. These brought him national fame. Employed in…
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