The UK's highest aqueduct that's so tall it's nicknamed 'the river in the sky'

The awesome operation spans 2 nations (Image: Getty)

The UK’s highest aqueduct that spans crossed 2 nations is truthful gangly its adjacent nicknamed ‘the stream successful the sky’.

Nestled successful the hills of Dee Valley- a designated country of earthy quality - the awesome operation known arsenic Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (which translates to Traphont Ddwr Pontcysyllte successful Welsh) is 11 miles agelong and features aqueducts, tunnels and viaducts.

You tin transverse “the watercourse successful the sky” astatine this UNESCO World Heritage tract - the world's highest canal. UNESCO describes this satellite practice tract arsenic "a masterpiece of originative genius".

Having taken 10 years to complete, the awesome structure was completed successful 1805 and is 1 of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways.

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct took 10 years to implicit (Image: Getty)

The awesome operation outgo astir £50,000 – adjacent to £5m successful today’s wealth – transforming the satellite of civilian engineering.

You tin instrumentality a canal vessel on the aqueduct, which is supported by 18 chromatic towers supra the River Dee.

There is simply a beardown consciousness of Wales and England coming unneurotic successful this area, arsenic connected the tract you tin besides find the Chirk Aqueduct and Tunnel, which straddles the borderline betwixt Wales and England. So you tin person 1 ft successful England and 1 ft successful Wales if you truthful wish, arsenic it's conscionable a speedy stroll distant from the municipality centre of Chirk, a assemblage successful Wrexham county.

The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct stretches 11 miles (Image: Getty)

The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct whitethorn look successful the mediate of nowhere, but it is really precise accessible successful northbound Wales and northbound England.

From Liverpool oregon Crewe, it is conscionable an hour's thrust distant and determination is adjacent a car parkland erstwhile you get there. Or you could instrumentality a bid which is an hr and 3 quarters, with conscionable the 1 swap successful Chester. It's besides ace reachable from Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent being conscionable an hr and half's thrust away.

For those successful Wrexham who privation to sojourn this pioneering portion of architecture by Thomas Telford it takes conscionable implicit 10 minutes to thrust here.