Canal Boat Crossing Chirk Aqueduct

Harking back to a bygone era... This is the Chirk Aqueduct that spans the Ceiriog Valley and carries the beautiful Llangollen Canal into England, where it becomes the Shropshire Union Canal. The aqueduct stands 70ft high and was completed in 1801, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, by civil engineers Thomas Telford and William Jessop. The higher structure to the right is a railway viaduct, which was added some years later. I particularly love the hand railing and how worn it is by generations of hands touching it to steady themselves as they crossed.