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Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, aka the Ladies of
Llangollen, set regency tongues wagging when they eloped together.
Even straight-laced William Wordsworth visited their Gothic fantasy
at Plas Newydd.
When Thomas Telford and William Jessop opened the aqueduct a
month after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, it was the tallest
canal boat crossing in the world.
We still call it the "stream in the sky". It's 1007 feet long
and 126 feet high. And on one side there's nothing between you and
the River Dee far below except a great deal of fresh Welsh air.
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