Willie and Sheila's Welsh borders break.

Willie and Sheila went off for a break to the Welsh borders and brought back some photos of their visit to the very impressive Chirk and Pontcysyllte Aqueducts.

Chirk Aqueduct

Chirk Aqueduct

Chirk Tunnel

For info:
You can walk through Darkie Tunnel but beware it is some 1200 feet in length, so a flashlight is recommended, it is one of two tunnels at Chirk, the other is the shorter Whitehurst Tunnel
The 70 feet high aqueduct built between 1796 and 1801 by Thomas Telford and William Jessop. 

The Pontcysylite Aqueduct

View from the aqueduct (snow on the mountains)

Willie and Sheila

After a walk across the aqueduct

For info:
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct , is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wrexham County Borough in north east Wales. Completed in 1805, it is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain.

When the bridge was built it linked the villages of Froncysyllte, and Trevor.

The aqueduct, built by Thomas Telford and William Jessop, is 1,007 ft (307 m) long, 11 ft (3.4 m) wide and 5.25 ft (1.60 m) deep. It consists of a cast iron trough supported 126 ft (38 m) above the river on iron arched ribs carried on eighteen hollow masonry piers (pillars). Each of the nineteen spans is 53 ft (16 m) wide. 

View from below.

They enjoyed their stay and will definitely be going back to enjoy some of the walks in the area.