Salisbury and Southampton Canal

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Salisbury and Southampton Canal
The presence of the canal bed, which ran left to right, caused problems during the construction of Clover Nook, seven blocks of flats built on Old Redbridge Road. The nearest block is numbers 81 to 96.
Specifications
Maximum boat length	60 ft 0 in (18.29 m)
Maximum boat beam	8 ft 0 in (2.44 m)
Locks	16 or 17
Status	Mainly destroyed
History
Original owner	Proprietors of the Salisbury and Southampton Canal
Principal engineer	John Rennie
Date of act	1795
Date of first use	1802
Date closed	1808
Geography
Start point	Salisbury
End point	Southampton
Connects to	Andover Canal, River Test, River Itchen

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Legend
Route to Salisbury Alderbury Wharf West Grimstead locks (3) East Grimstead locks (3) West Dean locks (2) Sawmill Lock East Dean Lock Holbury Mill Lock Lockerley Lock Canfield Lock Dunbridge Lock River Test aqueducts Kimbridge Jn with Andover Canal Andover Canal locks Southampton Section Andover Canal entrance lock River Test Estuary Southampton Tunnel Southampton River Test entrance lock Northam Lock River Itchen Southampton Water

The Salisbury and Southampton Canal was intended to be a 13-mile long canal in Hampshire and Wiltshire, southern England. Its proposed route ran from Redbridge, now a western suburb of Southampton at the head of Southampton Water, to Salisbury, and connecting with the Andover Canal at a junction near Mottisfont. Another section, through Southampton, was to connect via a tunnel to the River Itchen. Part of the canal was built and was in use by 1803, but it closed amid financial failure in 1806.