Horseshoe Falls (Wales)

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For the falls in Canada, see Horseshoe Falls.

The Horseshoe Falls (grid reference SJ195433) is an artificially created waterfall on the River Dee near Llantysilio Hall in Denbighshire, Wales, approximately three miles west of the town of Llangollen.

The distinctively shaped weir helps create a pool of water that can enter (via an adjacent valve house and flow meter) the Llangollen Canal, which begins here, and was originally designed and constructed in 1808 by civil engineer Thomas Telford. It is 460 feet long.

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  • Cragg, Roger (1997). Wales and West Central England: Wales and West Central England, 2nd Edition. Thomas Telford. ISBN 0727725769. 

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Coordinates: 52°58′52″N 3°11′53″W / 52.981, -3.198

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