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The following views move along that stretch of the Basingstoke Canal within Woking Borough, East to West, from its junction with the River Wey by the M25 near West Byfleet, towards Pirbright Lock. Along each section, the views are mostly in chronological order, oldest first.

New Haw (Fulbrook) Bridge


Canal at Byfleet c1903


Basingstoke Canal - Punt c1905


Basingstoke Canal - Maybury c1895


Monument Bridge (Bunkers Bridge) winter c1903


Bunkers Bridge


Basingstoke Canal c1905


Basingstoke Canal - Fishing c1905


Chertsey Road Bridge c1900


Chertsey Road Bridge c1930


View back to town from Chertsey Road bridge c1915


Basingstoke Canal (Boundary Road) c1915


Basingstoke Canal 1906


Basingstoke Canal c1910


Basingstoke Canal c1915


Basingstoke Canal near Wheatsheaf Bridge


Chobham Road (Wheatsheaf) Bridge c1950


Wheatsheaf Bridge & Victoria Hospital c1905


Wheatsheaf Bridge & Victoria Hospital c1915


Step Bridge


Step Bridge


New Swing Bridge c1955


Basingstoke Canal near Langham's Bridge c1905


Basingstoke Canal, St John's c1913


Basingstoke Canal, St John's c1920


Basingstoke Canal Lock, St Johns


Basingstoke Canal viewed from Kiln Bridge c1920


Hermitage Bridge c1930


Hermitage Bridge c1910
The bridge had collapsed in October 1904 and the council had made a temporary repair. A new bridge was built in 1915


Hermitage Bridge c1910


Hermitage Bridge


View from Hermitage Bridge summer c1905


View from Hermitage Bridge winter c1905


Surrey County Asylum (Brookwood Hospital) 1898


Brookwood (or Stumps Bridge) 1914


Stumps Bridge 1914


Stumps Bridge 1914


Brookwood Lock c1930


Basingstoke Canal, Brookwood c1950


Pirbright Lock and Girder Bridge for Bisley branch line


Pirbright Lock and Girder Bridge for Bisley branch line