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
Wey and Godalming Navigations
The River Wey Navigation and Godalming Navigation together provide a 20-mile (32 km) continuous navigable route from the River Thames near Weybridge via Guildford to Godalming. Both waterways are in Surrey and are owned by the National Trust. The River Wey Navigation connects to the Basingstoke Canal at West Byfleet, and the Godalming Navigation to the Wey and Arun Canal near Shalford. The Navigations consist of both man-made canal cuts and adapted parts of the River Wey.
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
