The canal ran 11⁄4 miles from the dam pool at Broadmoor to Cinderford Ironworks.
The canal also served a water wheel providing the furnace blast.
Cinderford Ironworks re-opened in 1829, by which time the Bullo Pill Railway had been opened with a line running past the works to provide coke and ore and to take away the finished iron.
[1] The canal started at the dam pool at Broadmoor (SO647146), where the Cinderford Brook had been dammed in the seventeenth century to provide water to an iron furnace in Soudley, and ran parallel to the brook south to the ironworks in the valley west of Cinderford (SO652135).
[2] The route is now followed by the Valley Road, lined with light industrial enterprises, and little if anything remains of the canal.