Basingstoke Canal : Dieter Jebens & Roger Cansdale

Description

The Basingstoke Canal was built towards the end of the ‘great canal mania’ in the eighteenth century.It was intended to provide a transport route to and from London via the Wey and the Thames, but the expectations of its promoters were never realised: no dividends were ever paid to the shareholders and in 1866 the Canal Company declared itself bankrupt.