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 Friday 28^th April

Chirk  to Llangollen

The sunshine was back and it was even a little bit warmer.

Very soon after we left our mooring on Chirk Bank, we arrived at Chirk Aqueduct. Rather than try and describe it, I’ll put plenty of photos.

Chirk Aqueduct with Railway Viaduct to the left.

River Ceiriog below.

Showing towpath, channel and an edging (not for walking on!)

Fields and River Ceiriog

Viaduct in use.

After the aqueduct comes Chirk Tunnel, then Whitehouses Tunnel – no photos in tunnels.

Crossing into Wales and heading for Chirk Tunnel

No locks on this section of canal, but there was one lift bridge - actually there are two, but one is permanently open so doesn’t require any action from us.

Then we reached the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct – again photos rather than words.

On to the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Down to the fields - no edging to this side of the channel.

River Dee

More River Dee

On the last stretch into Llangollen, there are some very narrow sections where two boats cannot pass each other, so I walked ahead to alert Steve about any boats coming from the Llangollen direction. As it turned out, there were no boats, just a couple of kayakers,

In Llangollen, we moored in the very nice basin provided for boaters to use at the end of navigation for powered boats. 

The horsedrawn boat does go further along right to the absolute end where the River Dee feeds into the canal.

"Dakota" at work

After having lunch we walked down into the town and did some shopping. We took the shopping back to the boat and then walked along the towpath to explore the rest of the canal. We walked right to the end to the Horseshoe Falls before walking back to the boat for the evening.

The canal starts here where water from the Dee is fed into the channel.

The Horseshoe Falls - the weir where water from the Dee is diverted to the canal.

Today’s miles and locks – 8.75 miles    0 locks      

Total miles and locks – 165.50 miles  98 locks