 The Basingstoke Canal also was built to connect with the Wey navigation, putting Guildford in the centre of a network of waterways.The Chilworth gunpowder works operated right through the Industrial Revolution, and transported much of its wares through Guildford and its toll paid canal network.A six-mile (10 km) branch of the London and South-Western Railway from Woking to Guildford was opened in May 1845.