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The archive / Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
33.9 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 31.9–35.9) — 1,088 days across 45 closures of this 32km 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 74% of this cruising season — 170 of its 231 days — across 26 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
- North West, Yorkshire and North East
- On record
- 51 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 46 closures on the Huddersfield Narrow 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.
Showing the 46 longest of 46. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 22E, Slaithewaite, Huddersfield | 4 January 2027 | 67 days |
| Lock 6 west, Stalybridge | 4 January 2027 | 39 days |
| Lock 16, West Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Mossley | 11 January 2027 | 32 days |
| An old redundant sluice near Bridge 78, Uppermill High Street Bridge, Upper Mill | 15 February 2027 | 25 days |
| Lock 29E Marsden, Huddersfield | 22 February 2027 | 18 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 near Huddersfield | Cancelled | 1 December 2025 |
| Navigation Closure , Tunnel End rail bridge, Huddersfield Narrow Canal - Overnight coring works | Completed | 18 May 2025 |
| Lock 22E, Slaithewaite, Huddersfield | Published | 4 January 2027 |
| Lock 29E Marsden, Huddersfield | Published | 22 February 2027 |
| Lock 6 west, Stalybridge | Published | 4 January 2027 |
| Lock 16, West Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Mossley | Published | 11 January 2027 |
| An old redundant sluice near Bridge 78, Uppermill High Street Bridge, Upper Mill | Published | 15 February 2027 |