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The archive / Coventry Canal
Coventry Canal
2.6 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 2.2–3.0) — 156 days across 14 closures of this 61km 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 — 59 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 2 of those have 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 Coventry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culvert 15A, near Sutton Road Bridge in the Bonehill area of Tamworth | Sutton Road Bridge to A5 Road Bridge | 2026-01-19 | 53 |
| Atherstone Lock Flight | Lock 1, Atherstone Top Lock to Lock 11 | 2026-08-04 | 49 |
| Adjacent to Bridge 41, Coleshill Road Bridge | Bridge 41, Coleshill Road Bridge to Bridge 40, Taverners Bridge | 2026-02-16 | 20 |
| Lock 13, Glascote Bottom Lock to Fradley Swing Bridge | Lock 13, Glascote Bottom Lock to Fradley Swing Bridge | 2025-09-02 | 15 |
| Dunstall Farm Bridge, Coventry Canal | Dunstall Bridge | 2026-09-12 | 10 |
| Bridge 91, near Fradley | Bridge 91, New Bridge | 2026-06-05 | 3 |
| Near Tamhorn Park Bridge, Tamworth | Hopwas Wood Bridge to Tamhorn Park Bridge | 2026-03-17 | 2 |
| Lock 1, Atherstone Top Lock | Lock 1, Atherstone Top Lock | 2025-11-11 | 1 |
| Bridge 49, Grendon Bridge | Bridge 49, Grendon Bridge | 2025-10-06 | 1 |
| Between Bridge 13 and Hawkesbury Junction | Winding Hole, Hawkesbury Junction to Bridge 13, Bedworth Hill Bridge | 2026-08-27 | 1 |
| Between Bridge 15, Marston Lane Bridge and Bridge 16, Arbury Park Bridge | Bridge 15, Marston Lane Bridge to Bridge 16, Arbury Park Bridge | 2026-08-27 | 1 |
| Atherstone Lock 9 | Lock 9 | 2025-08-01 | same day |
| Electric Wharf, near Sandy Lane, Coventry | Coventry Basin to Bridge 1A | 2026-06-03 | same day |
| Glascote Lock 13 | Lock 13, Glascote Bottom Lock | 2026-07-22 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Weir 11, above Bridge 27, Wood Bridge, Nuneaton | 16 November 2026 | 25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Weir 11, above Bridge 27, Wood Bridge, Nuneaton | Published | 16 November 2026 |