BASINGSTOKE CANAL PHOTO GUIDE

WOODHAM TOP - CHERTSEY ROAD

The Basingstoke Canal up to this point has been fairly straight as canals go, and the scene has been rather urban. After the ascent of the Woodham flight, the canal takes on a rather more rural character, with attractive houses dotted here and there. The Basingstoke has many double bends and the first of these occur almost immediately on leaving Lock 6, leading through a most attractive part where it can be difficult to envisage that this is part of busy, bustling Woking!

    
Above Woodham Top Lock. Right: Attractive properties line the canal

White Heather, a former Regents Tug, moored near Monument Bridge

Above and below: Views looking from Monument Bridge. There was once a wharf here, as evidenced by the remains of this crane. The location was Britannia Wharf. The modern flats are on a piece of land that used to belong to a glass factory. An early picture I took along this stretch show the sign 'Glass' raised high on a pole above the side of the bridge.

 
The offical re-opening site near Chertsey Road Bridge

In 1991, the Basingstoke was officialy reopened, and open space alongside the canal is where the main celebrations took place. A stone can be made out some way past the head of the slipway next tot he towpath - this is the commorative stone of the re-opening by the Duke of Kent. This was the location of Spantons yard, where the very last commercial barges traded up to from the Thames in the 1950's. In the distance is Chertsey Road Bridge.

The canal below Chobham Road Bridge in torrential rain

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