Canal Map from Ash to West Byfleet
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Canal Map From Ash to West Byfleet (Greywell to Ash is Overleaf) T: 01256 703691 N The Basingstoke Canal is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and as you would expect has a diverse range of animal and plantlife in and around it. Here are some of the species you may encounter: Wildlife on the Canal Birds - Kingfisher, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen, Swan, Heron, Little Grebe (Dabchick), Little Egret, Great Crested Grebe, Grey Wagtail, Red Kite, and Canada Geese. W E Insects (general) - Mayfly, Whirligig Beetle, Greater Water Boatman, Great Diving Beetle, Pond Skater. Damselflies and Dragonflies - Common Blue Damselfly, Red Eyed Damselfly, Broad Bodied Chaser, Hairy Dragonfly, Ruddy Darter, Downy Emerald Dragonfly, Brilliant Dragonfly, Red Eyed Dragonfly. Waterside Plants - Reedmace, Yellow Iris, Purple Loosestrife, Yellow Loosestrife, Flowering Rush, Bogbean, Water Violet. Water Plants - Water Soldier, Fringed Water Lily, Bladderwort, Water Crowfoot, Frogbit, Duckweed. S Mammals - Watervole, Fox, Badger, Roe Deer, Fallow Deer, Natterer's bat, Daubenton's Bat, Whiskered Bat, Brandt's Bat, Brown Long Eared Bat. Woodham Locks Other Animals - Grass Snake, Common Toad, Common Frog, Adder Woodham Chobham Woodham Junction 1 Road Sheerwater Footbridge 2 The Wey Navigation Lock 24 on the Deepcut flight became known as Washerwoman's Road Bridge 3 Lock during the canal's commercial days because a woman who The WWF The Wheatsheaf (Wheatsheaf Bridge 4 Bridge) 6 5 lived in an adjacent cottage took in bargemens' washing. Living Planet Start at 9:30am St John's Locks Centre The Scotland Lakeside on Saturday, Lightbox Bridge Sunday, Tuesday Parley Bridge Bedser (Camphill The Rose Kings Pipe Dry Brookwood Drive Lockfield Turnaround Head Bridge Dock & Thursday Woodend Rd) & Thistle Locks Bridge Bridge Drive point for Deepcut You MUST be Bridge Bridge The Nags Head back at This (St John's (Goldsworth weekly Guildford Road Bridge Bridge) (Kings Head Bridge) Sheet's point by 3pm Road) Narrowboat West Byfleet Deepcut Locks Heath Hermitage 9 8 7 Chertsey holidays. Frimley Bridge Road 11 10 Road 27 25 15 Bridge Failure to turn Lodge 23 21 14 12 Bellini Bridge Park Guildford 19 17 16 Step here may leave Potters Railway Langman's Bridge 28 Bridge Bridge Monument you stranded as Pool Aqueduct (Hangdog Road 26 Rowbarge Barn St John's Locks Mytchett Private 24 22 13 Bridge) Bridge Start at Bridge 20 18 Pirbright Tiang The Ketch Arthur's must be clear Canal Centre 9:30am Curzon Bisley Rail (Bunkers Bridge Bridge Start at 9:30am Bridge by 3pm Swing Bridge on Monday, Bridge Cowshot Hermitage Kiln Bridge) Bridge (Remains) Brookwood on Monday, Spice Wednesday Bridge Wednesday Woods Village Bridge Mytchett and Friday Brookwood Fisheries (Stumps and Friday Footbridge Place Fish & Chips Bridge) Bridge Woking Brookwood Potters Pubs along the Surrey Section of the Basingstoke Canal The Basingstoke Canal Centre - The canal is owned by both Hampshire County Council The Swan, 2 Hutton Rd, Ash Vale, Aldershot GU12 5HA Mytchett and Surrey County Council, with each authority owning the land within their jurisdiction. Lake Other days 12–11pm Tel: 01252 325212 Bridge Until 1990, both councils managed their own sections separately. It was decided that a central Sunday 12–10:30pm Mytchett body should manage the entire waterway and the Basingstoke Canal Authority was formed. www.chefandbrewer.com/pub/ Lake Mytchett In 1993, the canal visitor centre was opened which now acts as the central offices of the Canal Rail Lake Bridge Authority. The Canal Centre facilities include; an information point and gift shop, tearoom, picnic area, Potters, 1 Mychett Place Road, Mytchett Pl Rd, Mytchett, Deepman's children's 'trailblazer' play area, function room and a campsite. Public boat trips are available Surrey GU16 6DD Footbridge Tel: 01252 513934 Angler's throughout the summer, please contact the Canal Centre for dates and times or check their Other days 11am–11pm Flash Facebook page. Boat licences and fishing licences can also be purchased from the Sunday 12–10:30pm Basingstoke Canal Centre. www.potterssteakhouse.com Ash Vale Station Station Approach Greatbottom Flash - This along with Mytchett Lake is believed to have been a natural feature Kings Head, Guildford Rd, Frimley Green, Camberley GU16 6NR Ash Vale All days 9am–11pm Rail Bridge which became enlarged and incorporated into the canal to form a reservoir. The flash is now a Tel: 01252 835431 Map Symbols / Key www.harvester.co.uk Ash Vale haven for water plants, dragonflies and birds like the Dabchick and Great Crested Grebe. Lock Tandoori Greatbottom Flash The Basingstoke Canal is the single most important site for dragonflies in the UK and has (Outside) Heath Winding Hole Vale 26 species and some 102 species of water plants. Bridge The Nags Head, Bagshot Road, Knaphill, Woking GU21 2RP Swing Bridge The Mr A J Harmsworth - Alexander John Harmsworth was born in 1868 Other days 12am–11pm Swan Tel: 01483 474602 he and his family have a longstanding connection working and living on the canal Sunday 12–10:30pm Pubs - Restaurants www.thenagsheadinnwoking.co.uk his father was a carpenter and he followed in his footsteps and later became a Mooring point with lighterman and was made a Freeman of the Thames. He started a boat repair posts or rings 48 hrs The Rowbarge, 39 St Johns Rd, Woking, GU21 7SA business at Ash Vale and as a side business he built pleasure boats which he Ash All Days 12–11pm Water Point Aqueduct Ash hired out at Ash Vale. This grew to around 400 pleasure craft. The Harmsworth Tel: 01483 761618 Bo Wah www.rowbarge.co.uk ! Low Bridge Wharf Fish Bar family owned a number of barges which transported goods on the canal. The Bridge best year for trade on the canal in recent times was 1935, when 31,577 tons Bridge Barn, Bridge Barn Ln, Woking, GU21 6NL WW2 Pillbox A331 CO-OP Spice was carried up to Woking. Saturday 7am–11pm of India Tel: 01483 763642 1 Mile Marker (30 min) Happy The John Pinkerton One Shilling Sunday 7am–10:30pm Garden Ash One of the subcontractors employed to construct the canal, was an Copper token, the size of an old Other Days 6:30am–11pm Car Park Vale architect named Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Born in Leeds in 1764, he later www.beefeater.co.uk Railway penny, was paid to the navvies Shops Ash Bridge emigrated to the USA and went on to complete the United States Capitol who built the canal they could Rubbish Disposal Building in Washington D.C. exchange it at local pubs and The Wheatsheaf, Chobham Road, Woking, GU21 4AL All days 11am–12am shops for goods and services. Tel: 01483 773047 Lift Bridge www.emberinns.co.uk Each coin is now worth £250 Towpath / Footpath Version 5 - Jan 2019.