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The archive / Ashton Canal
Ashton Canal
15.6 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 13.3–17.9) — 171 days across 14 closures of this 11km 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 29% of this cruising season — 68 of its 231 days — across 7 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
- North West
- On record
- 15 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.
Every closure on record
Showing all 14 closures on the Ashton Canal.
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.
| Notice | Extent | Started | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock 1 to Lock 18 | Lock 18 to Lock 1 | 2025-07-28 | 53 |
| Lock 18 | Lock 18 to Lock 1 | 2025-10-01 | 44 |
| Lock 1 to lock 18 | Lock 18 to Lock 1 | 2026-08-02 | 25 |
| Between Lock 1 and Lock 18 | Lock 18 to Lock 1 | 2026-04-16 | 14 |
| Lock 1 and Lock 18 | Lock 18 to Lock 1 | 2026-07-15 | 12 |
| Lock 15 to Lock 18 | Bridge 18, Ashton Hill Lane Road Bridge to Lock 15 | 2025-10-02 | 6 |
| Lock 12 | Lock 12 | 2026-05-01 | 4 |
| Lock 9 To Lock 12 | Lock 18 to Lock 2 | 2026-05-13 | 3 |
| Lock 1 - 4, Ashton Canal | Lock 4, Broming Street to Lock 1 | 2025-05-13 | 2 |
| Navigation Closure; Between Lock 18 and Lock 10, Ashton Canal | Lock 18 to Lock 10 | 2025-06-10 | 2 |
| Bridge 21 | Bridge 21, Lumb Lane Bridge | 2025-11-15 | 2 |
| Lock 9 to Lock 18. | Lock 18 to Lock 9 | 2026-07-06 | 2 |
| Pipe Crossing near lock 4 Ashton canal | Pipe Crossing | 2025-12-06 | 1 |
| Between Lock 9 and Lock 12 | Lock 12 to Lock 9 | 2026-04-14 | 1 |
Showing the 14 longest of 14. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Bridge 11A - Manchester City | 1 February 2027 | 6 days |
Not counted
Cancelled notices and ones whose dates cannot be right are in no figure on this page. They are kept here because CRT published them.
| Notice | State | Started |
|---|---|---|
| Bridge 11A - Manchester City | Published | 1 February 2027 |