Frimley Lock No 21
Frimley Lock No 21 is one of some locks on the Basingstoke Canal near to Bristol Inclined plane.
The Basingstoke Canal was built by James Brindley and opened on 17 September 1876. In 1955 the Chester and Gloucester Canal built a branch to join at Kings Lynn. Expectations for limestone traffic to Macclesfield never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Basingstoke Canal were submitted to parliament in 2001, water transfer to the treatment works at Tivercroft kept it open. In Henry Jones's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Longbury Embankment during the Poll Tax riots.

There is a bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.
| Frimley Lock No 17 | 5 furlongs | |
| Frimley Lock No 18 | 3½ furlongs | |
| Frimley Lock No 19 | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Frimley Lock Winding Hole | 1½ furlongs | |
| Frimley Lock No 20 | 1 furlong | |
| Frimley Lock No 21 | ||
| Frimley Lock No 22 | 1 furlong | |
| Frimley Lock No 23 | 2 furlongs | |
| Frimley Lock No 24 | 3 furlongs | |
| Lock No 25 (Curzon Bridge) | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Curzon Bridge | 4 furlongs | |
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![Lock No 21, Basingstoke Canal. Lock No 21 on the Basingstoke canal. Refer to picture [[4726678]] for the next view along the canal. by Len Williams – 31 October 2015](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/72/66/4726676_bf88cc0b_120x120.jpg)








![Lock No 21, Basingstoke Canal. The approach to lock No 21 on the Basingstoke canal. Refer to picture [[4726676]] for the next view along the canal. by Len Williams – 31 October 2015](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/72/66/4726674_cdf5d6fb_120x120.jpg)

















![Top of Lock 20. Walking away from Lock 20 you can see some bank repair work has been going on, though water is still undermining the lock side as is seen from the leak in the sides. [[3212859]] by Bill Nicholls – 27 October 2012](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/21/28/3212862_5acfcc52_120x120.jpg)