Llangollen route 418, offering journeys to Wrexham and to London via Shrewsbury, Telford and Birmingham. The Ellesmere Canal was intended to connect the coal mines and ironworks at Ruabon and Wrexham to the canal network and thence to the sea via the River Mersey and the River Severn. The plans were altered, and instead of connecting Trevor northwards to the sea via the River Dee and southwards to the Severn, the canal ran eastwards to join the national network at Hurleston Junction on the Shropshire Union Canal near Nantwich. A feeder canal, navigable to Llangollen, was constructed from Trevor to tap
Geufron Hall, Llangollen also display the original brass plaque advertising the services of "Dr Drinkwater, surgeon and apothecary". The old doctor's dispensary is still in the garden and the house is also said to contain windows from the ruins of Valle Crucis Abbey, installed when it was first built. Geufron Hall is now used as a family home and Bed and Breakfast establishment. Geufron Hall, Llangollen Geufron Hall is a historic house in Llangollen. Built in 1837, it was occupied by Dr Richard (Dick) Drinkwater and Dr Fred Drinkwater in the years immediately prior to the Second World War (1939–45) and used as