A step back in time to a more leisurely way of life on the Llangollen Canal.  As we took in the sights along the way we learnt about the men who built this amazing canal, which although not deep is very high up in the valley and runs through rock that could only be passed by using "black powder" to make the canal for the canal.  It was designed in 1791by a group of industrialists, and completed in 1805. Like most canals, it originally carried goods in barges, in this canal these were coal and iron from the works in Llangollen along the canal which was first known as the Ellsmere Canal to River Mersey and River Severn so that these goods could be delivered more easily.