Itchen Navigation
canal, river navigation
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Winchester
Hampshire
SU485287
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Compton and Shawford
Twyford
Otterbourne
Eastleigh
Hampshire
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Southampton
Hampshire
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refce: HANTSLOC.t
Course, E: 1967: Itchen Navigation: ProcHFC: 24: pp113-126
descriptive text
Period - 18th century, early
refce: Defoe 1724
Winchester ... Here is ... no navigation; there was indeed an attempt to make the river navigable from Southampton; and it was once made practicable, but it never answer'd the expence, so as to give encouragement to the undertakers.
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001