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Droitwich Barge Canal

Something was shut here on 3% of this cruising season — 7 of its 231 days — across 4 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
West Midlands
On record
10 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

2026 seasonAll time

Duration

Cause

Asset affected

CRT reason

Region

Showing all 10 closures on the Droitwich Barge Canal.

10
closures
68
closure-days
3
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
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
3
2
0
0
1
0
2
1
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
West Midlands6810
10 results · every closure on the Droitwich Barge CanalJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2026-01-0924
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2026-02-0419
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Body Brook, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2025-12-0913
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2025-11-143
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2026-02-273
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2026-03-133
Bridge 11, near Droitwich Spa Leisure Centre
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 11, Siding Lane2025-11-171
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2026-08-271
Droitwich Barge Canal, Droitwich Junction Canal
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2026-08-311
Between Vines Park Barge Lock and Lock 6, Droitwich
High Water Levels · Weather
Lock 6, Body Brook to Bridge 7, Swan Drive2026-06-02same day

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