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The archive / Chesterfield Canal
Chesterfield Canal
6.4 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 5.8–7.1) — 338 days across 12 closures of this 52km 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 36% of this cruising season — 84 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
- Yorkshire and North East
- On record
- 14 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 12 closures on the Chesterfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollution Incident spanning Pudding Dyke Bridge to Dog Kennel Bridge | Bridge 34, Thorpe Pudding Dyke Bridge to Bridge 31, Kiveton Dog Kennel Bridge | 2025-10-31 | 200 |
| Lock 48, Worksop Stret Lock - Near Worksop | Lock 48, Worksop Stret Lock | 2026-01-12 | 60 |
| Turnerwood Lock 37 | Lock 37, Turnerwood Bottom Lock | 2025-09-01 | 49 |
| Bridge 41A, Sandy Lane Bridge | Bridge 41A, Sandy Lane Bridge | 2026-08-31 | 8 |
| Worksop Town Lock | Lock 50, Worksop Town Lock | 2025-06-12 | 7 |
| Chesterfield Lock 60, Whitsunday Pie Lock | Lock 60, Whit Sunday Pie Lock | 2025-07-20 | 4 |
| West Stockwith Lock | Lock 65, West Stockwith Lock | 2026-09-14 | 4 |
| Ranby - Fallen tree | Chesterfield Canal - 035 | 2025-06-30 | 2 |
| Lock 33, Double Bottom Lock - closure | Lock 33, Double Bottom Lock (Top) | 2026-04-20 | 1 |
| Lock 45, Doefield Dun Lock | Lock 45, Doefield Dun Lock | 2026-05-14 | 1 |
| Bridge 62, Hayton Smeath Lane Road Bridge | Bridge 62, Hayton Smeath Lane Bridge | 2026-05-29 | 1 |
| Boundary Lock - Thorpe Top Treble Lock | Lock 41A, Boundary Lock to Lock 20, Thorpe Top Treble Lock (Top) | 2026-07-30 | 1 |
Showing the 12 longest of 12. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Gringley Shaw, Lock 62, Gringley on the Hill | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Worksop Town, Lock 50, Worksop | 11 January 2027 | 60 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Worksop Town, Lock 50, Worksop | Published | 11 January 2027 |
| Gringley Shaw, Lock 62, Gringley on the Hill | Published | 2 November 2026 |