BW9
Hampshire County Council
Description
Records of Hampshire County Council concerning Basingstoke Canal 1973.
Date
1973
Reference code
BW9
Access Status
These records are available immediately for research
Administrative / Biographical history
The council bought the parts of the Basingstoke Canal lying within Hampshire in 1974. The remainder of the canal being bought by Surrey County Council. The canal was restored and reopened by 1991 and is now run by a joint management committee, the Basingstoke Canal Authority.
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 fonds has therefore been arranged in chronological order.
Associated material
[See also: BW6-8, and 10 for records of the Basingstoke Canal during other periods of ownership]