 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.