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The archive / Calder & Hebble Navigation

Calder & Hebble Navigation

4.6 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 3.9–5.4) — 164 days across 19 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 15% of this cruising season — 34 of its 231 days — across 14 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
Yorkshire and North East
On record
21 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

Status

Period

2025 season2026 seasonAll time

Duration

Cause

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CRT reason

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Showing all 19 closures on the Calder & Hebble Navigation.

19
closures
164
closure-days
30
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
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
2
2
2
0
0
5
4
4
1
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
Yorkshire and North East16419
19 results · every closure on the Calder & Hebble NavigationJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Lock 12, Brighouse Bottom
Repair · Wear and tear
Bridge 2, Elland to Lock 15, Kirklees Low Lock2026-01-0567
Lock 5, Woodside Mills - Near Elland
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 3, Salterhebble Bottom to Lock 5, Woodside Mills2026-01-0567
Bridge 23 Cooper Bridge Viaduct on the River Calder. Between Battye Cut and Lk16 Cooper Bridge - Removed and reopened
Underwater Obstruction · Wear and tear · title says reopened
Lock 16, Cooper Bridge to Flood Gates, Battyeford2026-06-1015
Salterhebble Guillotine Lock 3 - Operational
Repair · Wear and tear · title says reopened
Lock 3, Salterhebble Bottom2026-06-184
Lock 12, Brighouse Bottom Lock, Calder and Hebble Navigation.
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 12, Brighouse Bottom2026-09-114
Wall Clasped near Bridge 3, Edward Road - Closed from Rochdale Lock 1 to Salterhebble Lock 1 - OPEN
Underwater Obstruction · Wear and tear
Lock 12026-07-152
Figure of 3 Bottom - Blown Paddle
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 24, Figure Of Three Bottom2025-05-291
Thornes Lock - Failed Paddle
Information · Wear and tear
Lock 27, Thornes2025-07-241
Salterhebble bottom lock - NOW OPEN
Maintenance · Wear and tear · title says reopened
Lock 3, Salterhebble Bottom2026-06-141
Salterhebble middle basin
Low Water Levels · Cause not stated
Lock 2, Salterhebble Middle2026-06-281
Lock 25, Broad Cut Top Lock
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 25, Broad Cut Top2026-08-181
Lock 9 Brookfoot to Lock 10 Ganny
Maintenance · Wear and tear
Lock 9, Brookfoot to Lock 10, Ganny2025-09-12same day
Greenwood Lock Paddle Replacement
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 19, Greenwood2026-06-16same day
Broadcut Top Lock - Paddle Repairs
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 25, Broad Cut Top2026-07-03same day
Brookfoot Lock, Paddle Repairs - NOW OPERATIONAL
Repair · Wear and tear · title says reopened
Lock 9, Brookfoot2026-07-09same day
Broadcut Top Lock - Closed Due to Paddle Repairs
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 25, Broad Cut Top2026-07-10same day
Figure of Three Locks - Divers on Site 11th August
Maintenance · Wear and tear
Lock 23, Figure Of Three Top2026-08-11same day
Figure of Three Locks - Divers On Site 14th August
Maintenance · Wear and tear
Lock 23, Figure Of Three Top2026-08-14same day
CLOSED - Lock 10, Ganny Lock
Repair · Cause not stated
Lock 10, Ganny2026-08-21same day

Coming up

Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.

2 scheduled.
ClosureFromPlanned
Lock 10, Ganny Lock, Nearest town Brighouse
Calder & Hebble Navigation · Repair
2 November 202646 days
Lock 18 Shepley - Shepley Bridge, Mirfield
Calder & Hebble Navigation · Repair
2 November 202646 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.

2 notices excluded from the figures.
NoticeStateStarted
Lock 10, Ganny Lock, Nearest town BrighousePublished2 November 2026
Lock 18 Shepley - Shepley Bridge, MirfieldPublished2 November 2026

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