A short flight of locks would have brought the canal southward out of the Kennet Valley before crossing the river Enborne near Shalford Bridge.
Three years later, his proposal was amended by his junior, Francis Giles, who surveyed a similar but shorter route totalling 13 miles (21 km).
The proposal would have used a shorter tunnel of 0.5 miles (0.80 km) at Tadley, as well as the potential for an inclined plane at Sherborne St John.
[7] He made an amendment the following year to provide a pumping station by the River Enborne at Ashford Hill, although this resubmitted bill was rejected in 1826.
However, rather than a route via Tadley, a due-north canal connecting Greywell with the Kennet and Avon between Burghfield and Southcote Locks is suggested.