Month: March 2010
Ringway to Basingstoke Festival Centre/Bus Station
The full 37 and half miles from the Wey to Basingstoke The canal route marked by trees near Ringway East The tall building is the AA’s headquarters and its known as Fanum House. It has a claim to be the tallest building between London and New York! Nearer and nearer […]
Read More Basing House to Swing Bridge Cottages
The full 37 and half miles from the Wey to Basingstoke The entrance to Basing House. once through the arch, visitors cross the canal bridge to gain access to the grounds Basing House Bridge Basing House bridge still stands and forms part of the driveway to Basing House. This section […]
Read More Basing – Rainbow Close to Musket Copse
The full 37 and half miles from the Wey to Basingstoke Rainbow Close follows the canal’s alignment After the M3, the canal sweeps round in a long arc, almost encircling The Hatch, to enter Basing in a north easterly direction. It passses through a new housing development that has just […]
Read More Along Greywell Road and the motorway
The full 37 and half miles from the Wey to Basingstoke Past Frog Lane the canal passed through a small copse before emerging onto this field, which of course was bisected by the canal when it existed. The upper section of field that has been turned over actually marks where […]
Read More Penny Bridge, Little Tunnel & Frog Lane
The full 37 and half miles from the Wey to Basingstoke End of canal at Penny Bridge – and just a few hundred yards beyond this point is Little Tunnel This is the end of the Basingstoke Canal, as we know it, at Penny (or Penney) Bridge, although there is […]
Read More From Greywell tunnel to Brick Kiln Bridge
The full 37 and half miles from the Wey to Basingstoke The narrows where the tunnel portal originally stood. This end of the tunnel has disappeared by about 25 yards Two views of the portal at Greywell tunnel The canal bed is pretty evident west of the tunnel, sometimes in […]
Read More Over Greywell Hill to the tunnel's other end
The full 37 and half miles from the Wey to Basingstoke Above: The footpath leading over Greywell Hill is not the original boat horse route. The first bit from Greywell Tunnel’s eastern portal is a new section that takes one over the top of the tunnel, past this fencing and […]
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The 5 miles beyond Greywell to Basingstoke
The lost section from Greywell to Basingstoke The Basingstoke Canal’s lost section officially begins at Penny Bridge where the jurdiscion of the Canal Authority ends. Since the section of canal from Greywell westwards is in no way navigable, we begin the ‘lost section’ at Greywell itself. No boats have been […]
Read MoreGreywell
Places around the Basingstoke Canal Greywell is probably best known for being the tunnel with the bats in it on the Basingstoke Canal. It has a small but picturesque village, with a norman church and a mill. The River Whitewater passes through the village just a short distance away from […]
Read MoreNorth Warnborough
Places around the Basingstoke Canal Next to Swan bridge on the Basingstoke Canal is the Swan Inn. This used to be popular with the boatmen whose barges worked the canal in its heyday The crossing of the Whitewater at Warnborough Green near the lift bridge on the Basingstoke Canal (there’s […]
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