Salisbury and Southampton Canal
- Salisbury and Southampton Canal
The Salisbury and Southampton Canal was intended to be a 13 mile long canal from Redbridge, now a western suburb of Southampton at the head of Southampton Water, to Salisbury connecting with the Andover Canal at a junction near Mottisfont. Another section, through Southampton, was to connect via a tunnel to the River Itchen. The route was surveyed in 1793 and authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1795. The canal suffered from severe cost overruns and by 1798 the money from the initial issues of shares had run out. [cite book|author=Charles Hadfield|title=The Canals of South and South East England| year = 1969|pages=182|isbn=0-7153-4693-8] ]The canal opened in 1802 or 1803 but the company was defunct by 1808. The scheme failed before the canal was fully built and it operated for only a few years. Parts of the route, for example through Nursling, Dunbridge and Butts Green, now form the route of the later railway, but some sections of the canal are still traceable near Romsey and between Redbridge and Romsey.
References
ee also
*Canals of Great Britain
*History of the British canal system
External links
* [http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/History22.html#S&SC Southampton and Salisbury Canal entry in Jim Shead's Waterways pages]
* [http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantscat/html/hughes1.htm Notes from Hughes Journey Map of Hampshire in the HantsMap collection at the University of Portsmouth]
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