Trefor Wharf opened in 1805 at the north end of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Ellesmere Canal mainline. It formed the junction point with the three mile-long double track horse-worked Ruabon Brook Tramroad or Railway that continued the line intended for the canal to the north and served the Ruabon coalfield. It was designed by Thomas Telford and is still a very busy wharf for pleasure craft. An early railway track is in place on the western wharf and an important cast-iron beamed bridge crosses the mid point of the canal. The house designed by Telford for the canal manager Matthew Davidson and originally called 'Scotch Hall' survives as the Telford Inn on the north-east side of the basin.

RCAHMW, May 2011.