Pidcock's Canal

Pidcock's Canal
The remains of the Cut, to the north of Hill Street, Lydney
Specifications
Locks	3
Status	parts extant
History
Date of first use	1780s
Date closed	1840
Geography
Start point	Middle Forge
End point	Lydney
Connects to	originally Lydney Pill; Lydney Canal from 1813

v t e Pidcocks Canal (1880)
Legend
The Lyd Pond Sluice and weir Upper forge The Lyd Sluice and pond New Mills forge The Lyd Sluice and pond Weir and Sluice Middle forge and wharf The Cut Lydney - Chepstow road Lydney Town site of lock site of lock site of lock St Mary's Halt The Cut (Canal) The Lyd Reservoir Lower forge/Tin Works Station Cottages branch Lydney Great Western Railway basin Swing bridge Lydney Harbour Dock Lydney Canal

Pidcock's Canal was a canal in Gloucestershire, England, which connected ironworks at Upper Forge and Lower Forge, and also ran to an inlet from the River Severn called Lydney Pill. It was constructed from 1778 onwards, and there were three locks below Middle Forge. Following the construction of the Lydney Canal in 1813, the canal connected to that, rather than Lydney Pill, and it was disused after 1840, by which time a horse-drawn tramway had been built up the valley of The Lyd. The tramway was eventually relaid as a steam railway and is now preserved as the Dean Forest Railway. Most of the canal, colloquially called The Cut, still exists below Middle Forge.