Pidcock Creek is a tributary of the

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. Rising in Buckingham Township, it flows into the Delaware in Solebury Township after a short side trip within Upper Makefield Township.

History

Pidcock Creek was named for John Pidcock, early settler, occupying in 1698, and purchasing on 31 May 1701 from Gilbert Wheeler, the tract later known as the Thompson-Neely tract. The tract also included an old

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village called ''Win-na-haw-caw-chunk'' in the Wheeler and Pidcock deeds.MacReynolds, George, ''Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania'', Doylestown, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA, 1942, p. 301

Statistics

Pidcock Creek was added to the

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of the

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on 2 August 1979 as identification number 1183702. U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey I.D. is 03002. It has a

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of .

Course

Pidcock Creek rises in Buckingham Township from an unnamed pond and quickly receives two tributaries, one from the left and one from the right. Flowing into Solebury Township, it eventually turn to the southeast where it receives Curls Run from the right. Then it makes a short jaunt into Upper Makefield Township where it picks up another tributary from the right and returns to Solebury after which it turn eastward, then makes an "S" bend where it receives another tributary from the right then it meets its confluence at the Delaware's 146.30

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Tributaries

* Curls Run

Municipalities

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** Solebury Township ** Upper Makefield Township ** Buckingham Township

Crossings and bridges

* Pennsylvania Canal (Delaware Division) *

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(River Road) - NBI structure number 6791, bridge is long, 2 lane, 2 spans, masonry arch-deck, built 1935. *Bowmans Hill Tower Road *Covered Bridge Road (

Van Sant Covered Bridge The Van Sant Covered Bridge (Van Sandt Covered Bridge), also known as the Beaver Dam Bridge, is a historic covered bridge located in Solebury Township, near New Hope in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1875, the 86 foot, town truss span cr ...

) - NBI structure number 7536, bridge is long, single lane, single lane, wood or timber truss - thru, reconstructed 2008. Van Sant Covered Bridge is number 80003438 on the National Register of Historic Places. *

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(Windy Bush Road) - NBI structure number 6958, bridge is long, 2 lane, single span, concrete tee beam, built 1930, reconstructed 2011. *Atkinson Road (Creek Road) - NBI structure number 7525, bridge is long, single lane, 3 spans, masonry arch-deck, reconstructed 2006. *Pidcock Creek Road *Street Road - NBI structure number 7542, bridge is long, 2 lane, single span, steel stringer/multi-beam or girder, steel deck, built 1954, reconstructed 2013. *Pineville Road - NBI structure number 47909, bridge is long, concrete tee-beam, concrete cast-in-place deck, built 1954, reconstructed 2013. *Holicong Road

References

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