Andover Canal
More Information
Whilst this website gives a fairly detailed account of the Andover Canal, those seeking further information might find the following rather sparse resources of interest. However, it is not claimed that this page is exhaustive.
Books
The following books give information about the Andover Canal. Note: All these books are currently out of print but may be found second-hand via the internet or possibly borrowed from your local library.
| Title | Author | ISBN | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Canals of South and South East England | Charles Hadfield | 978-0715346938 | David & Charles - Nov 1969 | A comprehensive history of English inland waterways east of Bristol and south of and including the Thames. |
| Hampshire Waterways | P A L Vine | 978-0906520840 | Middleton Press - Nov 1990 | Contains mainly images (historical and modern) of most waterways in Hampshire. It includes 14½ pages of maps, pictures and extracts from old documents about the Andover Canal. |
| Lost Canals and Waterways of Britain | Ronald Russell | Hardback: 978-0715380727 Paperback: 978-0722175620 | David & Charles - Hardback: Jan 1982. Sphere - Paperback: April 1983. |
Expanded and updated version of ‘Lost Canals of England and Wales’ published Oct 1971 ISBN: 978-0715354179. However, both books give only brief details of the Andover Canal. |
| Promotion of the Andover-Redbridge Canal | J E H Spaul | Paperback: 978-0903755023 | Andover Local Archives Committee - 1 Jan 1975 | This 48 page A5 publication is interested in the promotion and financing of the canal’s construction. |
| Andover to Redbridge - ‘The Sprat & Winkle line’ | Nigel Bray | Softcover: 978-0954485948 | KRB Publications (Kestrel Railway Books) - 11 Dec 2004 | The first chapter of this railway book gives a fairly detailed account (8 pages) of the conversion of the canal to a railway. |
Other Documents
The following is a non-exhaustive list of free documents giving more information about various aspects of the Andover Canal.
| Author | Date | Title | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoebe Merrick | undated | Romsey and its Canal | Romsey & District Society | This web page gives some details about the history of the canal and some of the people involved with it. |
| Joseph Priestley | 1831 | Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, 1831 | A few details of the canal and wharfage at Redbridge. Various reprints and copies of the original book may be found on the internet but are not cheap. The link on the left leads to a transcription of the entry for the Andover Canal on the website ‘web.archive.org’. |
Further research
If you wish to delve even deeper into the canal’s past, there is a page on this website which provides information about various resources that might help you to find out more than the above books and documents provide.
It seems that the records of the original canal company are no longer in existence. One would have expected they would be held with records of the railway companies that replaced the canal company. It also seems that the records of the solicitor for the canal company have gone astray.
For example, a few records about the canal are held in the Hampshire Record Office in Winchester which is run by Hampshire County Council. Some resources are held at various other archives nationwide, details of which should be discoverable through the National Archives. Details of these and other resources, local and national, can be found here.