© CRT- Sylvia Edwards 2016 MONTGOMERY HERITAGE WALK Visitor Centre SY22 6EA point: Starting 2.5 milecircularwalk TO AQUEDUCT VYRNWY WHARF LLANYMYNECH

Montgomery canal heritage walk

Llanymynech Wharf to Vyrnwy Aqueduct

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Heritage Area is a as "The separate entity but gives Canal" is made up of 4 the background to the built by several coming of the canal different companies whose main purpose was between 1794 and 1819 to transport limestone. – the Eastern and The Romans mined lead Western Montgomery and copper on canals, the Arm Llanymynech Hill but there and the first canal – the is no evidence that they Llanymynech Branch of extracted limestone the Ellesmere ran from although it's known that Welsh Frankton to just they used lime mortar. short of Top which was Extraction really began in completed in 1796. the early 18thC with the agricultural revolution and the improvement of soil by" liming" it. There are references to the local limestone industry in the second half of the 18thc by well-known travellers of that time [Rev Richard Pococke 1754; Thomas Pennant 1773; Rev Walter Davies 1795; Arthur Aikin 1796] In 1791 there was a "Grand Plan "to link the rivers Mersey and Severn, and what we know today joined. timeandtheweretwo systems same Garthmyl wasconstructed aroundthe The Eastern Branch from Carreghofato completed in1796/7 top lock) to Welsh Franktonwas Llanymynech (justnorth ofCarreghofa it reached Newtown. 1797. Itanother was twentyyearsbefore Garthmyl whereitran outofmoneyin From there itwasprojectedandbuiltto heritage walk believed tohavebeenaboutthe same toGuilsfieldarm butit's There isverylittleknownofdatesforthe

approaching theVyrnwy Aqueduct. Carreghofa toplock andanother accessed bysmartphonesatapoint 'historypoints.org' which can be There isawebsitecalled Further information operative untilthe endof1821. not1819 itwasprobably commercially and althoughrecorded ascompletedin Newtown didnothappenuntil 1815, The Western Branch fromGarthmylto short of Guilsfield! time astheEastern. Itstopped~1mile

© CRT- GIS 2016 PRACTICALITIES

Parking Aqueduct and the return across 1. The Llanymynech Heritage fields. There are some steep Area car park by the wharf. steps down off the aqueduct 2. The village car park behind but there is a handrail. The Dolphin Inn, right at the back by the canal. A couple of fields towards the end of the return leg tend to be Terrain boggy and possibly very muddy The walk is roughly 2½ miles depending on the weather and evenly divided between the whether there are/have been towpath to the Vyrnwy cows in them – boots essential.

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