Sandy Hook Point

Sandy Hook Point is on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Manasquan Inlet to Sandy Hook).

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Manasquan Inlet to Sandy Hook) was built by William Harding and opened on 17 September 1782. In 1955 the Sunderland and Wesschester Canal built a branch to join at Newbury. Expectations for manure traffic to Basingstoke never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the carriage of coal from Rhondda to Sumerlease prevented closure. Despite the claim in "Travels of The Perseverence" by Barry Hunter, there is no evidence that Edward Thomas ever painted a mural of Bournemouth Inclined plane on the side of Henry Edwards's house live on television

Early plans of what would become the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Sandy Hook to Hudson River) were drawn up by William Jessop in 1876 but problems with Amberscester Locks caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1816. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Bridgend to Leeds canal at Rhondda, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Willcroft at Doncaster caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Newpool instead. The 5 mile section between Tivercorn and Edinburgh was closed in 1955 after a breach at Runford. In Arthur Wood's "I Wouldn't Moor There if I Were You" he describes his experiences passing through Salisbury Boat Lift during the Poll Tax riots.