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Towpath

Too few unplanned closures of this kind in June to August 2026 and the same months a year earlier to tell a change from luck: 0 against 1. How this is tested.

On record
2 notices since May 2025: 1 closure and 1 restriction

In force today

No closure of this kind is in force today.

By canal

2 canals have had a closure of this kind. A closure naming two canals counts on both.

Closures of this kind on each canal since May 2025, most first.
CanalClosures
Leeds & Liverpool Canal1
Rochdale Canal1

Every closure on record

Showing 1 closure and 1 restriction involving a towpath.

Period

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Asset affected

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closures
7
closure-days since May 2025, all in the cruising season
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no reopening date
What these figures mean
Population
Which closures a figure counts. All closures is everything; Unplanned closure drops the works CRT flags as its winter programme and any day outside the cruising season (the Friday nearest 15 March to the Sunday before the first Monday in November). Scheduled work CRT does not flag as winter works still counts here. CRT Planned closure is the flagged winter programme alone.
Defensible duration
The days between a closure's start and its reopening date, counted only where the dates allow it. A cancelled notice, or one whose reopening precedes its start, has no defensible duration and is in no total.
Closure-days
One day on which one closure was in force. Two closures on the same day are two closure-days; where the question is how long a canal was actually disrupted, overlapping notices are unioned into single intervals. They are counted from 1 May 2025, when this archive begins: a closure that started earlier adds only its days since then, though its own row shows its whole length. Every figure and chart counts only the days inside the Period chosen above them.
In force
A closure is in a Period, and a day is one a closure affected, if it was in force at any time that day, including the morning it reopened. Closure-days measure how long, so they count whole days and not the reopening day: a closure can be in a Period and add no closure-day to it.

Closures in force each month

closures active during the month
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Canals ranked by the season's closures

share of the period's cruising-season days up to today — a closure somewhere on a long canal is likelier, and does not mean the canal was impassableclosures in force on the period's cruising-season days — a longer canal has more to go wrong on

Where

closure-days by regionclosures by region

A region with more canal has more to go wrong on, so these totals partly measure its size. Regions compared by length of canal are on the Reliability page.

What causes them

closure-days by causeclosures by cause

CRT's reason

closure-days by the reason CRT filedclosures by the reason CRT filed

What fails on a lock

closure-days by part — unplanned lock failures naming a partclosures by part — unplanned lock failures naming a part

How long they last

closures by full length, including any days before May 2025 — the bands are not equal in width
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Closures

  1. From Lock 11 to Lock 12 on Rochdale Canal - Towpath section has reopened

    Rochdale CanalYorkshire and North East

    7 days

    From 12 June 2025

    Reopened 19 June 2025

    CRT's title says reopened

    Where
    Lock 11 to Lock 12
    CRT reason
    Event
    Cause
    Ground moved
    Asset
    Towpath

    The sinkhole has been repaired and is open for towpath use for pedestrians and other towpath users. The navigation is still closed.

    Latest of 3 CRT updates, 10 July 2025.

  2. Between Bridges 59B & 60

    Leeds & Liverpool CanalNorth West

    14 days

    From 8 October 2025

    Ended 22 October 2025

    Restriction, not a full closure

    Where
    Bridge 59B, Shedfield Bridge to Bridge 60, Haigh Park Bridge
    CRT reason
    Vegetation
    Cause
    Weather
    Asset
    Towpath

    Towpath remains closed due to the large trees that has fallen between Bridges 59B & 60, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, however navigation remains open. Contractors have unfortunately been delayed in attending site. We will provide a further update on or before Thursday 23…

    Latest of 4 CRT updates, 16 October 2025.

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