Basingstoke Canal
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The Basingstoke Canal is an English canal, completed in 1794, built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation.
The Basingstoke Canal passing through Woking
Stock certificate of the "Company of Proprietors of the Basingstoke Canal Navigation" of one share at £100, issued on 7 November 1791, printed on parchment. With the end of the "canal mania", these £100 shares crashed to £30 in 1800 and £5 in 1834.
A light railway track installed on the towpath by volunteers, to aid restoration of the Deepcut Flight of locks.
Dragons teeth at Crookham Wharf on the Basingstoke Canal
The River Wey Navigation and Godalming Navigation together provide a 20-mile continuous navigable route from the River Thames near Weybridge via Guildford to Godalming. Both waterways are in Surrey an
Basingstoke Canal
…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…
Catteshall Lock, the southernmost lock on the Navigations at Farncombe, Godalming, Surrey.
Lock sign at Walsham Gates where the river and canal are divided by a weir
Papercourt lock with negligible flow along the bypass channel made up here of tiered runs
Guildford wharf