Author: Vine, P A L
Title: London's Lost Route To Basingstoke - The Story Of The Basingstoke Canal
Description: David & Charles, 1968, 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/G+. 212pp, colour frontis, 20pp b/w plates showing 42 images, 16 text figs, 11 maps, index, fore edges foxed, dustjacket somewhat rubbed & worn along the edges, a good reading copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0715343041 ¶ The story of the Basingstoke Canal which ran from the Wey Navigation 37.25 miles to Basingstoke. Originally envisaged as the start of a much longer canal to connect the Thames to the south coast the canal was never a commercial sucess & remained a backwater.

Keywords: ISBN 0715343041, canals, topography, industrial archaeology, hampshire, surrey 0715343041