BW9/1
Basingstoke Canal
Description
Records of Basingstoke Canal: a report by Joint Working Party on restoration and management 1973.
Date
1973
Reference code
BW9/1
Administrative / Biographical history
The council bought the parts of the Basingstoke Canal lying within Hampshire in 1973. The restoration of the canal is being led by the Surrey and Hants Canal Society. In 1991 restoration was completed as far as Greywell Tunnel. The canal is managed by the Basingstoke Canal Authority on behalf of the Hampshire and Surrey County Councils.
For further information on the Basingstoke Canal see Edward Paget-Tomlinson's 'The Illustrated History of Canals & River Navigations' and Charles Hadfield's 'The Canals of South and South East England'.
System of arrangement
It has not been possible to ascertain any original structure of record-keeping from the small number of records held for this company. The subfonds has therefore been arranged in chronological order.