Llangollen Canal 070923 5895 2 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Llangollen Canal 070923 5895 2 / Richard Szwejkowski
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | A walk along the Llangollen Canal between Llangollen and Berwyn on 7 September 2023. This view is looking west on the access road to the Bridge Hotel at Berwyn.The Llangollen Canal, only so designated for the first time in the 1980s, was part of the Shropshire Union Canals (SUC) system, built to carry goods and minerals from sites around Trefor, where a basin was constructed just north of the Pontycysllte Aqueduct, completed in 1805. At that time it had been intended that water for the canal would be supplied by a reservoir that had been constructed in 1786 in the Moss Valley near Wrexham, but little work was ever done on the intended canal route via Ruabon and Brymbo to Chester. In 1808 it was decided to take a feed from the River Dee near Llantisilio, two miles west of Llangollen, and hence this feeder, never fully navigable for the last mile.Although there were reasonable levels of traffic to Llangollen until after World War I, records suggest that by 1937 the whole section from the junction with the rest of the system at Frankton was disused, and it was formally abandoned in 1944. That was not the end as the whole channel was the main feeder for the rest of the SUC, and it was also used to supply the Mid and South-east Cheshire Water Board. Fortunately it survived long enough to become an integral part of the leisure waterways boom that got under way in the late 1940s. Of some note is that the canal was actually part of the Shropshire Union Railways & Canal Company, formed in 1846 after absorbing a number of other canal companies, and with the intention of building railways. By the end of that year such thoughts had been abandoned and an agreement was sought to lease the canals to the London & North Western Railway Company. This was accepted, but not formally enacted until 1857, from which point the canal was railway owned until the 1944 closure noted above. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-09-07 13:42:54 |
| 撮影者 | Richard Szwejkowski |
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| カメラ | DC-TZ200 , Panasonic |
| 露出 | 0.01 sec (1/100) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.3 |