Southampton and Salisbury Canal

Maps

Southampton & Salisbury Canal Company

Joseph Hill's plan of 1794 (141KB) of the canal and printed for subscribers.

Ordnance Survey

The whole of the canal is shown in the two series of 7 maps as listed below.

• The ‘modern’ series utilises Ordnance Survey 1:50000 mapping dating from 2005.
• The Old Series One-Inch mapping consists of extracts of the One Inch mapping originally surveyed in 1806-7 and published in about 1810 - the only OS mapping we have contemporary with the canal’s construction. This mapping has been enlarged so that it displays at 1:50000 to match the ‘modern’ mapping. [However, these copies of the maps do show selected revision (mainly the addition of railways and of major development in Southampton) which date these particular maps to between about 1847 and 1851.]

The surveys for each of the ‘Old Series’ One Inch maps were collated by the surveyors onto preliminary drawings on paper at a scale of two inches to the mile using pen and ink. It was from these that the copper printing plates were engraved by hand at One Inch scale. These drawings were working documents, now over 200 years old, and in places are a bit the worse for wear.

The British Library holds these documents and the links below provide access to images of the drawings covering the Southampton & Salisbury and Andover Canals. The British Library online gallery site requires Flash Player to be installed on your computer.