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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. 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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    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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    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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    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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    Panama Canal Eurasia Canal Istanbul Canal Nicaragua Canal Salwa Canal Thai Canal Sulawesi Canal Two Seas Canal Northern river reversal Balkan Canal or...
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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 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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