Sheet's Heath Bridge carries the road from Newport to Sandwell over the Basingstoke Canal.
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.
| Hermitage Bridge Winding Hole | 1 mile, 1 furlong | |
| Brookwood Bridge | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Brookwood Bottom Lock No 12 | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Brookwood Lock No 13 | 3 furlongs | |
| Brookwood Top Lock No 14 | 2½ furlongs | |
| Sheet's Heath Bridge | ||
| Connaught Crescent Winding Hole | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Pirbright Bridge | 4½ furlongs | |
| Frimley Bottom Lock No 15 | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Frimley Bottom Lock Winding Hole | 5 furlongs | |
| Frimley Lock No 16 | 6¾ furlongs | |
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![Sheets Heath Bridge, Basingstoke Canal. By 1979, restoration work on the Basingstoke Canal had begun and the towpath here had been cleared. Compare this with my earlier photograph of 1973 before the clearance [[476394]] by Dr Neil Clifton – 04 March 1979](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/photos/51/78/517861_930b18d9_120x120.jpg)



![Sheet's Heath Lane bridge. Bridge over the canal at Brookwood. Compare the same view at spring time, see [[1275185]]. by Paul E Smith – 09 January 2010](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/71/77/1717788_a6091d2e_120x120.jpg)




















