Salisbury and Southampton Canal

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 length60 ft 0 in (18.29 m)
Maximum boat beam8 ft 0 in (2.44 m)
Locks16 or 17
StatusMainly destroyed
History
Original ownerProprietors of the Salisbury and Southampton Canal
Principal engineerJohn Rennie
Date of act1795
Date of first use1802
Date closed1808
Geography
Start pointSalisbury
End pointSouthampton
Connects toAndover Canal, River Test, River Itchen
Salisbury and Southampton Canal
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.