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Bridgwater & Taunton Canal
57.7 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 54.7–60.8) — 1,368 days across 4 closures of this 24km 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 7% of this cruising season — 16 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
- Wales and South West
- On record
- 4 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 4 closures on the Bridgwater & Taunton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Street Cutting. Bridgwater & Taunton Canal | Bridge 1, Victoria Rd to Bridge 4, Albert St | 2021-11-12 | 71 |
| Bridge 30, Bathpool Swing Bridge, and Bridge 28, Hyde Bridge. | Bridge 28, Hyde to Bridge 30, Bathpool Swingbridge | 2026-07-09 | 15 |
| Bridge 1 Victoria Rd & Lock 2 Newtown Lock. | Bridge 1, Victoria Rd to Lock 2, Newtown Lock | 2026-01-22 | 12 |
| Bridgwater & Taunton Canal | Lock 6 Higher Lock to Lock 7 Firepool | 2025-07-07 | 4 |
Showing the 4 longest of 4. Every row links to the notice CRT published.