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The archive / Caldon Canal
Caldon Canal
12.1 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 10.8–13.4) — 329 days across 14 closures of this 27km 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 26% of this cruising season — 60 of its 231 days — across 8 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.
2 closures are still shut now, and 1 of those has no reopening date. Filter to them.
- Regions
- West Midlands
- 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 Caldon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caldon Canal - Hazlehurst Top Lock to Froghall | Lock 10 Hazelhurst Top Lock to Froghall Basin Lock | 2025-08-11 | 92 |
| Hazelhurst Top Lock to Froghall | Lock 10 Hazelhurst Top Lock to Froghall Basin Lock | 2025-05-26 | 77 |
| Froghall Basin Lock | Froghall Basin Lock | 2026-07-30 | 54 |
| Hazelhurst to Froghall Basin | Lock 10 Hazelhurst Top Lock to Froghall Basin Lock | 2026-08-01 | 52 |
| Cheddleton Top Lock to Cheddleton Bottom Lock | Lock 14 Cheddleton Bottom Lock to Lock 13 Cheddleton Top Lock | 2025-07-16 | 26 |
| Lock 7, Railway Lock | Lock 7 Railway Lock | 2025-09-29 | 24 |
| Lock 16 (Oakmeadowford Lock) | Lock 16 Oakmeadowford Lock | 2026-08-03 | 2 |
| Between Bedford Street Lock 1 and Lock 9 | Lock 1 Bedford Street to Lock 9 Top Lock | 2025-06-19 | 1 |
| Bridge 49, Black Lion Footbridge, Consall | Bridge 49, Black Lion Footbridge | 2025-12-16 | 1 |
| Bedford Street Staircase Locks | Lock 1 Bedford Street to Lock 2 Bedford St Top Lock | 2026-03-18 | same day |
| Caldon Canal Bridge 11, Ivyhouse Road Lift Bridge | Bridge 11, Ivyhouse Road Lift Bridge | 2026-05-10 | same day |
| Lock 13 Cheddleton Top Lock, Stoke | Lock 13 Cheddleton Top Lock | 2026-05-25 | same day |
| Lock 13 Cheddleton Top Lock, Stoke | Lock 13 Cheddleton Top Lock | 2026-05-26 | same day |
| Between Lock 13 (Cheddleton Top Lock) and Bridge 44 (Basford Lane Bridge) | Lock 13 Cheddleton Top Lock to Bridge 44, Basford Lane Bridge | 2026-05-20 | same day |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Road Lock 8, Stockton Brook | 2 November 2026 | 46 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Road Lock 8, Stockton Brook | Published | 2 November 2026 |