…we see the canal that divides Shugborough from the village of Great Haywood.
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Chirk Tunnel
Chirk Tunnel is 420m (459 yards) in length and is one of two tunnels at Chirk; the other is the shorter Whitehurst Tunnel. The tunnels are significant in that they were the first tunnels in Britain to incorporate a tow-path.
14 Comments CherryPie on May 28th 2011
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PhotoHunt – Looking Down
Chirk aqueduct is 70 feet high and was built between 1796 and 1801 by Thomas Telford and William Jessop.
The ten circular masonry arches of the structure, each spanning 40 feet, have piers carried between them as pilaster strips. There is no cast iron trough carrying the water of the canal, as at Pontcysyllte. Instead, the [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on May 27th 2011
