Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

After leaving our Chester hotel we drove a short way to have a look around the model village of Port Sunlight. It was built by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory. Work commenced in 1888. The name is derived from Lever Brothers' most popular brand of cleaning agent, Sunlight. Port Sunlight contains 900 Grade II listed buildings, and was declared a Conservation Area in 1978. Port Sunlight has been informally suggested for World Heritage Site  status to protect it from development and to preserve the unique character for future generations.

We decided to leave out the normal motorway route back home and drive through scenic Wales. We stopped off at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and did a four mile walk along the canal crossing over the aqueduct twice.

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, a Grade I Listed Building and World Heritage Site. When the bridge was built it linked the villages of Frontllansllte, at the southern end of the bridge in the Cysyllte township of Llangollen.

After this beautiful leisurely stroll we continued our drive home through some stunning Mid Wales greenery. We stopped outside our friends house near Knighton but they weren't in.


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