Hackney Cut

Hackney Cut
The natural flow continues over the head of the Middlesex Filter Beds Weir, Hackney Cut continues the navigation to the right. The island between contains a nature reserve in the former filter beds.
Specifications
Locks	1 pair
Status	Open
Navigation authority	Canal and River Trust
History
Date of act	1767
Date of first use	1769
Geography
Start point	Lea Bridge
End point	Old Ford
Connects to	(part of) Lee Navigation

The Hackney Cut is an artificial channel of the Lee Navigation built in England in 1769 by the River Lea Trustees to straighten and improve the Navigation. It begins at the Middlesex Filter Beds Weir, below Lea Bridge, and is situated in the (modern) London Borough of Hackney. When built it contained two pound locks and a half-lock, but was rebuilt to handle larger barges in the 1850s, and now only Old Ford Lock, which is actually a duplicated pair, remains.