Llangollen Bridge

What is it? 

Llangollen Bridge is listed as one of the seven wonders of Wales and is a Grade I listed. It connects two sides of Llangollen across the River Dee 

Where is it? 

Castle St, Llangollen LL20 8PE 

What’s there? 

Llangollen Bridge is in Llangollen town centre 

Facts - 

▪ There has been a bridge across the Dee at Llangollen since at least 1284, though the current bridge appears to date to the 16th or 17th century when an earlier bridge was rebuilt. 

▪ The bridge was widened to provide more space for road vehicles in 1873 and 1968. The large cutwaters (V-shaped stonework to divert the river around the bridge piers) are a defining feature of the bridge and provide extensions of the pavement from which you can view the arches. 

▪ In the 1860s the bridge was lengthened when an extra span was added at the north end, to carry the road over the new railway. A stone tower with a castellated parapet was built at this end of the bridge at the same time. It rose two storeys above the road and was home to a café before it was demolished in the 1930s to improve the road layout. 

▪ Leaving students from local secondary school Ysgol Dinas Bran have a yearly (discouraged) tradition of jumping into the river Dee from the bridge