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...
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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...
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new transport links were constructed, including the Wey Navigation, Basingstoke Canal and London to Southampton railway line. The modern town was established...
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village is bounded to the north by the Basingstoke Canal and to the east by the M25 and the Wey Navigation Canal. Forming part of the contiguous development...
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Channel. Berks & Hants Canal, a proposed link from the terminus of the Basingstoke Canal at Basingstoke to the Kennet and Avon Canal, rejected twice by Parliament...
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South West Main Line (redirect from Waterloo to Basingstoke railway service)
Newbury and Devizes. In that year the Basingstoke Canal company suggested instead that a link be built between their canal, built 1794, and the Itchen Navigation...
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Waterway restoration (redirect from Canal restoration)
and Avon Canal 1990 Basingstoke Canal 1991 Bridgwater and Taunton Canal 1994 Huddersfield Narrow Canal 2001 Rochdale Canal 2002 Droitwich Canal 2011 United...
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suggestion was by the Basingstoke Canal, who proposed that their canal should be extended to link up with the Itchen Navigation, and the canal was seen as part...
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Fleet, Hampshire (section Canal)
the monks in Winchester in Medieval times. In 1792, the Basingstoke Canal opened. The canal passed through the town site, but apart from a few inns to...
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the eighteenth century it was proposed to build a cut (canal branch) from the Basingstoke Canal to Turgis Green but the proposal never came to fruition...
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Council, Shepherd Meadows. The river is crossed by a small part of the Basingstoke Canal SSSI, which supports the widest variety of aquatic species in England...
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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...
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Its border is defined to the north by a gently winding part of the Basingstoke Canal and to the south by the South West Main Line which passes from cutting...
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Her route took her along Laffans Road in Aldershot alongside the Basingstoke Canal. Here between 9.30 and 10.00 am she was attacked and beaten into unconsciousness...
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arable, cultivated fields and scattered woodland leading towards the Basingstoke Canal and part of the Eversley/Stratfield Saye/Tylney Park slightly scattered...
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close to Broadmoor Hospital. Part of the footpath also follows the Basingstoke Canal towpath. The route is not waymarked. Long-distance footpaths in the...
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Thames from the Barrier to Cricklade with the River Wey, Basingstoke Canal and Kennet & Avon Canal to Great Bedwyn (4th ed.). St. Ives, Cambridgeshire: Imray...
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Wey and Godalming Navigations (redirect from Wey Navigation Canal)
Wey Navigation connects to the Basingstoke Canal at West Byfleet, and the Godalming Navigation to the Wey and Arun Canal near Shalford. The navigations...
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improve with the opening of the London-Basingstoke turnpike in 1728, now the A30 London Road. The Basingstoke Canal, which runs to the south of Camberley...
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to the west and at a few locks' higher elevation by the parallel Basingstoke Canal to the east – across these boundaries are, respectively, Aldershot...
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Hampshire formerly had several canals, but most of these have been abandoned and their routes built over. The Basingstoke Canal has been extensively restored...
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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...
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the town from the north and east are welcomed to Fleet instead. The Basingstoke Canal bounds the northeast and briefly the northwest of Church Crookham...
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section passes over two navigable waterways, the River Kennet and the Basingstoke Canal, as well as the unnavigable River Loddon and its tributary, the Blackwater...
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around £45,000. A link connecting the Kennet & Avon to the Basingstoke Canal at its Basingstoke terminus was proposed three times between 1793 and 1810,...
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Deepcut is named after the excavations required for the building of the Basingstoke Canal during the 1790s, although the village dates primarily from the early...
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extended in the eighteenth century to Godalming. The Basingstoke Canal and Wey and Arun Junction Canal were later connected to the river. The navigable sections...
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east of the Puckeridge Ammunition Depot, and it is located near the Basingstoke Canal. Cove Brook, about 150 metres (500 ft) south of the AAIB head office...
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R. Cansdale (2004), Guide to the Basingstoke Canal. Basingstoke Canal Authority and the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society, 2004. (2nd Edition) St. John...
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