The Llangollen Canal is the surviving central section of the Ellesmere Canal, which was intended to link Shrewsbury with Netherpool on the Wirral (now known as Ellesmere Port) but was never completed. (Ellesmere is a small town in Shropshire, about 15 miles north of Shrewsbury and approximately midway between Oswestry and Whitchurch.)
The narrow branch from which the waterway now takes its name was originally a water feeder from the River Dee above the village of Llangollen.
Other surviving sections of the Ellesmere Canal now form parts of the Chester Canal, Montgomery Canal and Shropshire Union Canal.
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