The New Cut is an artificial waterway which was constructed between 1804 and 1809 to divert the tidal river Avon through south and east Bristol, England. This was part of the process of constructing Bristol's Floating Harbour, under the supervision of engineer William Jessop. The cut runs from Totterdown Basin at the eastern end of St Phillip's Marsh, near Temple Meads, to the Underfall sluices at Rownham in Hotwells and rejoining the original course of the tidal Avon.
The river Avon, in the New Cut, looking west towards Southville and St Pauls church, Bedminster
One of Jessop's 1802 plans (not adopted) for the New Cut, as a shorter addition south of the western portion of the original harbour
The New Cut at low tide, seen from Gaol Ferry Bridge
The Avon New Cut from Vauxhall Bridge
The River Avon is a river in the southwest of England. To distinguish it from a number of other rivers of the same name, it is often called the Bristol Avon. The name 'Avon' is loaned from an ancestor of the Welsh word afon, meaning 'river'.
The Avon Gorge and Clifton Suspension Bridge
The Town Bridge at Bradford on Avon
Claverton Pumping Station
Palladian Pulteney Bridge and the weir at Bath
