Carron Cut
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Carron Cut (-1810)Description
This canal linked the Forth and Clyde Canal to the River Carron. It was built by the Carron Company, one of the main users of the canal, to reduce the distance their vessels needed to travel to reach the Carron Iron Works. Without this short cut vessels would continue just over a mile to the sea lock at Grangemouth and another mile and a half back up the River Carron. The cut started on the east (sea) side of Lock 3 [1st] [FCC] north to the river. Going upstream on the River Carron the river was navigable as far as Carronside and from their a further short canal ran west to the Carron Iron Works, splitting to serve the site with two separate canal branches, north and south.
The Carron Cut fell out of use after 1810 when a basin was built, Carron Company Basin, by Lock 8 [FCC] , and a tramway opened north to the works, Carron Company. (The canal from Carronside remained open.)
This could have been dredged and re-opened to allow the Forth and Clyde Canal to re-open, instead a new alignment was opened just a little to the east. The new cut was needed as the canal had been piped and infilled between Lock 3 [1st] [FCC] and the sea lock at Grangemouth.
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