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Gloucester & Sharpness Canal
1.0 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 0.6–1.3) — 26 days across 6 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 10% of this cruising season — 23 of its 231 days — across 3 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
- Wales and South West
- On record
- 8 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 6 closures on the Gloucester & Sharpness 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloucester Lock 2. | Lock 2 Gloucester Lock | 2026-06-29 | 18 |
| Victoria Bridge, Gloucester Docks | Victoria Basin Swing Bridge | 2025-07-10 | 4 |
| Gloucester Lock 2. | Lock 2 Gloucester Lock | 2026-04-28 | 2 |
| Victoria Bridge. | Victoria Basin Swing Bridge | 2025-07-01 | 1 |
| From Bridge 22 Hempsted Road Swing Bridge to Lock 2 Gloucester Lock. | Lock 2 Gloucester Lock | 2025-11-20 | 1 |
| Gloucester & Sharpness Canal & River Severn, Gloucester Lock 2 to Haw Bridge | Lock 2 Gloucester Lock to Bridge 13, Haw Bridge | 2026-09-22 | same day |
Showing the 6 longest of 6. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| High Orchard Bridge, St Annes Way, Gloucester | 18 January 2027 | 18 days |
| Purton Upstream Safety Gates, Purton, Berkeley | 1 March 2027 | 10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Purton Upstream Safety Gates, Purton, Berkeley | Published | 1 March 2027 |
| High Orchard Bridge, St Annes Way, Gloucester | Published | 18 January 2027 |