Canal closures

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The archive / Ashby Canal

Ashby Canal

2.5 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 2.0–3.0) — 89 days across 9 closures of this 35km canal.

Lengths from CRT's ArcGIS open data, published under the strictest reading of its licence. A notice is attributed to the whole named waterway, not to a point.

Something was shut here on 10% of this cruising season — 22 of its 231 days — across 1 separate closures.

That means a closure somewhere on the canal, not that the whole canal was impassable. Every closure below names the locks or bridges it sat between.

Nothing is shut on this canal today.

Regions
East Midlands
On record
9 closures

The season, closure by closure

Each row is one closure. A bar starts and ends where the closure did, and its length is how long it ran; dashed bars have not started yet.

2026-03-15one bar is one closure2026-10-31

Every closure on record

Population

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Period

2025 season2026 seasonAll time

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Showing all 9 closures on the Ashby Canal.

9
closures
89
closure-days
29
in cruising season
0
no reopening date
What these figures mean
Population
Which closures a figure counts. All closures is everything; Unplanned, in season drops CRT's scheduled winter programme and any day outside the 15 March to 31 October cruising season; CRT winter programme is that maintenance 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.
The season so farweeks with a closure in force
Closures in force each monthclosures active during the month
0
0
1
0
1
0
5
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
East Midlands899
9 results · every closure on the Ashby CanalJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Bridge 11, Dratley's Bridge - Near Burton Hastings
Repair · Wear and tear
Bridge 11, Dratley's Bridge2025-11-0346
Between Timms Bridge 56 and Green Lane Bridge 57
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 56, Timms Bridge to Bridge 57, Green Lane Bridge2026-07-1721
Bulkington Road Bridge 5, Whitestone
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 5, Bulkington Road Bridge2025-09-177
Between Bridge 40 and Bridge 41
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 40, Coton Bridge to Bridge 41, Jackson's Bridge2025-11-154
Near Bridge 8, Mill Bridge
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 8, Mill Bridge2025-11-174
Between Bridge 34 and Bridge 34A
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 34, Sutton Wharf Bridge to Bridge 34A, Railway Bridge2025-11-153
Between Pipe Bridge and Lime Kilns Bridge 15
Vegetation · Weather
Ashby Canal - 0092025-11-172
Near Fosters Bridge 27
Vegetation · Other cause
Ashby Canal - 0162025-07-011
Marston Safety Gate, Bedworth
Inspections · Nothing failed
Bridge 1, Orton's Bridge to Bridge 15A, Marston Junction Bridge2026-02-101

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