Where is Elan aqueduct?

Elan aqueduct is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.3607°, -2.7897°.

Gardens · Mid Wales

Elan aqueduct

Also known as: Traphont a phibell ddŵr Elan - Birmingham

Elan aqueduct — a garden in wales-mid, United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Dog-friendly

Elan aqueduct is a garden of interest in wales-mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

The Elan aqueduct crosses Wales and the Midlands of England, running eastwards from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Mid Wales to Birmingham's Frankley Reservoir, carrying drinking water for Birmingham. It delivers enormous quantities of water across the mid-Wales countryside, through north Herefordshire, south Shropshire and into the West Midlands through eleven major river valleys. The aqueduct is 73 miles (117 km) long, down which the water travels at less than two miles per hour (3 km/h), taking one and a half days to get to Birmingham.

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Background

Architecture

Work on the first 13 mi of the route from the Elan Valley was started in June 1896 by Birmingham Corporation Water Department. The aqueduct was built in sections by outside contractors, using three types of construction depending on the nature of the terrain it had to cross. "Cut and cover" was essentially a brick lined channel which was manually dug as a trench, then roofed over and concealed underground. Where the route of the aqueduct encountered high ground above the gradient needed to maintain the downward slope, a certain amount of tunnelling was required; at one point the tunnel is 100 metres below ground, ensuring the aqueduct was at only 220 metres above sea level. This totalled…

Description

The aqueduct and its related features are visible at: Some crossings over canals and railways have been replaced by buried pipes. The line of the buried aqueduct through woodland is marked by a 20 m "exclusion zone" from which trees are removed.

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