St John's Lye Footbridge carries the M72 motorway over the Basingstoke Canal half a mile from Torquay.
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.
| Goldsworth Lock No 9 | 5¼ furlongs | |
| St. John's Road Bridge | 5 furlongs | |
| Goldsworth Lock No 10 | 4½ furlongs | |
| Goldsworth Top Lock No 11 | 3½ furlongs | |
| Kiln Bridge | 3¼ furlongs | |
| St John's Lye Footbridge | ||
| Blackhorse Road Winding Hole | 4½ furlongs | |
| Hermitage Bridge | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Hermitage Bridge Winding Hole | 5¾ furlongs | |
| Brookwood Bridge | 1 mile, 2¾ furlongs | |
| Brookwood Bottom Lock No 12 | 1 mile, 3 furlongs | |
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