The Basingstoke Canal is an English canal, completed in 1794, built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation.
From Basingstoke, the canal passes through or near Greywell, North Warnborough, Odiham, Dogmersfield, Fleet, Farnborough Airfield, Aldershot, Mytchett, Brookwood, Knaphill and Woking. Its eastern end is at Byfleet, where it connects to the Wey Navigation. This, in turn, leads to the River Thames at Weybridge. Its intended purpose was to allow boats to travel from the docks in East London to Basingstoke.
It was never a commercial success and, starting in 1950, a lack of maintenance allowed the canal to become increasingly derelict. After many years of neglect, restoration commenced in 1977 and on 10 May 1991 the canal was reopened as a fully navigable waterway from the River Wey to almost as far as the Greywell Tunnel. However its usage is currently still limited by low water supply and conservation issues.
The BasingstokeCanal is an English canal, completed in 1794, built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation. From...
Basingstoke (/ˈbeɪzɪŋstoʊk/ BAY-zing-stohk) is a town in Hampshire, situated in south-central England across a valley at the source of the River Loddon...
new transport links were constructed, including the Wey Navigation, BasingstokeCanal and London to Southampton railway line. The modern town was established...
village is bounded to the north by the BasingstokeCanal and to the east by the M25 and the Wey Navigation Canal. Forming part of the contiguous development...
Newbury and Devizes. In that year the BasingstokeCanal company suggested instead that a link be built between their canal, built 1794, and the Itchen Navigation...
Channel. Berks & Hants Canal, a proposed link from the terminus of the BasingstokeCanal at Basingstoke to the Kennet and Avon Canal, rejected twice by Parliament...
Her route took her along Laffans Road in Aldershot alongside the BasingstokeCanal. Here between 9.30 and 10.00 am she was attacked and beaten into unconsciousness...
Its border is defined to the north by a gently winding part of the BasingstokeCanal and to the south by the South West Main Line which passes from cutting...
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Thames from the Barrier to Cricklade with the River Wey, BasingstokeCanal and Kennet & Avon Canal to Great Bedwyn (4th ed.). St. Ives, Cambridgeshire: Imray...
Farnham opened. Alton became a junction station on 1 June 1901 when the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway opened, temporarily closed 1917–1924 as the track...
Wey Navigation connects to the BasingstokeCanal at West Byfleet, and the Godalming Navigation to the Wey and Arun Canal near Shalford. The navigations...
close to Broadmoor Hospital. Part of the footpath also follows the BasingstokeCanal towpath. The route is not waymarked. Long-distance footpaths in the...
the eighteenth century it was proposed to build a cut (canal branch) from the BasingstokeCanal to Turgis Green but the proposal never came to fruition...
improve with the opening of the London-Basingstoke turnpike in 1728, now the A30 London Road. The BasingstokeCanal, which runs to the south of Camberley...
Hampshire formerly had several canals, but most of these have been abandoned and their routes built over. The BasingstokeCanal has been extensively restored...
The Wey and Arun Canal is a partially open, 23-mile-long (37 km) canal in the southeast of England. It runs southwards from the River Wey at Gunsmouth...
Greywell Tunnel is a disused tunnel on the BasingstokeCanal near Greywell in Hampshire, which is now a 0.4-hectare (0.99-acre) biological Site of Special...
Deepcut is named after the excavations required for the building of the BasingstokeCanal during the 1790s, although the village dates primarily from the early...
Navigation and the BasingstokeCanal. The south coast at Littlehampton could be reached via the Thames, Wey and the Wey and Arun Canal. Note: Only the largest...
successful. There had also been several proposals to link it to the BasingstokeCanal to form an inland route from London to Southampton during its life...
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section passes over two navigable waterways, the River Kennet and the BasingstokeCanal, as well as the unnavigable River Loddon and its tributary, the Blackwater...
the town from the north and east are welcomed to Fleet instead. The BasingstokeCanal bounds the northeast and briefly the northwest of Church Crookham...
Henry VIII on the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s. The BasingstokeCanal was built to the south of Knaphill in 1794 and the railway line came...
period of time and so two hutted camps, one north and one south of the BasingstokeCanal, were constructed. Between 1854 and 1859, around 1,200 wooden huts...
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