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The archive / Kennet & Avon Canal
Kennet & Avon Canal
4.7 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 4.4–5.1) — 658 days across 39 closures of this 139km 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 67% of this cruising season — 155 of its 231 days — across 18 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 1 of those has no reopening date. Filter to them.
- Regions
- Wales and South West
- On record
- 43 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.
Lock 103, Burghfield LockLock 12, Pulteney Gardens LockBridge 86, Marsh Swing BridgeLock 86, Greenham Lock to Bridge 53, Whitehouse FootbridgeBridge 67, Hamstead Weir Footbridge to Bridge 68, Hamstead Road BridgeLock 61, Crossing Lock to Lock 60, Crofton LockBridge 25A, Ufton SwingbridgeBridge 23, Tyle Mill SwingbridgeLock 102, Garston Lock to Lock 101, Sheffield LockLock 84, Guyers LockRubbish Disposal, Br 183, Bathampton Rd to Bridge 184, Candys BridgeLock 60, Crofton Lock to Lock 54, Cadley LockLock 68, Oakhill Down Lock to Lock 67, Little Bedwyn LockKennet & Avon Canal - 057 to Kennet & Avon Canal - 061Lock 100, Sulhamstead LockLock 69, Froxfield Top LockLock 94, Woolhampton LockLock 55, Crofton Top Lock to Lock 53, Brimslade Lock 53Lock 93, Heales Lock
Every closure on record
Showing all 39 closures on the Kennet & Avon Canal.
39
closures
658
closure-days
300
in cruising season
1
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.
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
| Notice | Extent | Started | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock 5, Kelston Lock | Lock 5, Kelston Lock | 2025-09-10 | 182 |
| Lock 103 Burghfield Lock | Lock 103, Burghfield Lock | 2026-01-17 | 109 |
| Lock 82 Benham Lock to Lock 84, Guyers Lock. | Lock 84, Guyers Lock | 2026-06-16 | 77 |
| Lock 87, Ham lock, near Thatcham | Lock 87, Ham Lock | 2025-11-03 | 67 |
| Lock 81, Hamstead Lock, near Hamstead Marshall | Lock 81, Hamstead Lock | 2025-11-03 | 46 |
| Lock 100 Sulhamstead Lock, Kennet & Avon Canal | Lock 100, Sulhamstead Lock | 2026-08-01 | 40 |
| Lock 77, Brunsden, near Kintbury | Lock 77, Brunsden Lock to Lock 76, Wire Lock | 2026-01-12 | 25 |
| Lock 5 (Kelston Lock), Kennet and Avon canal | Lock 5, Kelston Lock | 2025-08-25 | 16 |
| Lock 52 Heathy Lock. | Lock 52, Heathy Close Lock | 2025-12-30 | 15 |
| Marsh Lane Lock 27 | Lock 44, Sir Hugh Stockwell to Lock 26, Devizes Lock | 2026-02-16 | 14 |
| Lock 103, Burghfield Lock | Lock 103, Burghfield Lock | 2025-10-15 | 9 |
| Lock 101 Sheffield Lock to Lock 102 Garston Lock. | Lock 102, Garston Lock to Lock 101, Sheffield Lock | 2026-06-01 | 9 |
| Lock 60 Crofton Lock to Lock 61 Crossing Lock. | Lock 61, Crossing Lock to Lock 60, Crofton Lock | 2026-04-14 | 9 |
| Deep Lock Bath | Lock 8/9, Bath Deep Lock | 2025-09-12 | 8 |
| Between Bridge 182 and Bridge 183, Kennet and Avon Canal | Bridge 182, Bathampton Swingbridge to Bridge 183, Bathampton Road | 2025-05-16 | 7 |
| Lock 12 – Pulteney Gardens Lock. | Lock 12, Pulteney Gardens Lock | 2026-03-12 | 5 |
| Bridge 31 (Woolhampton Swing bridge), Kennet and Avon Canal | Bridge 31,Woolhampton Swingbridge | 2025-06-23 | 3 |
| Lock 3 (Swineford Lock) | Kennet & Avon Canal - 132 | 2025-05-17 | 2 |
| The pound between Lock 71 Picketsfield Lock to Lock 72 Cobblers Lock. | Lock 72, Cobblers Lock to Lock 71, Picketsfield | 2025-11-03 | 2 |
| Lock 67 , Little Bedwyn Lock and Lock 68 Oakhill Down Lock. | Lock 68, Oakhill Down Lock to Lock 67, Little Bedwyn Lock | 2026-07-17 | 2 |
| Bridge 31 (Woolhampton Swing bridge). Kennet And Avon | Bridge 31,Woolhampton Swingbridge | 2025-06-04 | 1 |
| Bulls Swing Bridge 48 | Bridge 48, Bulls Swingbridge | 2025-08-06 | 1 |
| Kennet & Avon, Lock 84, Guyers Lock (Newbury) | Lock 84, Guyers Lock | 2025-08-09 | 1 |
| Bridge 8, Rose Kiln Lane - Bridge 8a, A33 Road Bridge | Bridge 8A, A33 Road Bridge, Reading to Bridge 8, Rose Kiln Lane | 2025-11-01 | 1 |
| 100 meters west of Orchard meadow- Bridge 78. | Bridge 78, Orchard Meadow | 2025-12-10 | 1 |
| Bridge 67, Hamstead Weir Bridge - Bridge 68, Hamstead road Bridge | Bridge 67, Hamstead Weir Footbridge to Bridge 68, Hamstead Road Bridge | 2026-04-12 | 1 |
| Kennet and Avon, Bathampton. 500mtrs west of Bathampton road Bridge. B183 | Rubbish Disposal, Br 183, Bathampton Rd to Bridge 184, Candys Bridge | 2026-06-22 | 1 |
| Lock 60 Crofton Lock - Lock 54 Cadley Lock | Lock 60, Crofton Lock to Lock 54, Cadley Lock | 2026-06-27 | 1 |
| Lock 54 Cadley Lock to Lock 55 Crofton Top Lock | Kennet & Avon Canal - 057 to Kennet & Avon Canal - 061 | 2026-07-30 | 1 |
| Lock 69, Froxfield Lock. | Lock 69, Froxfield Top Lock | 2026-09-17 | 1 |
| Lock 94 Woolhampton Lock | Lock 94, Woolhampton Lock | 2026-09-21 | 1 |
| Duck Race. Duke Street Bridge, 1 to Bridge Street, 2. Kennet & Avon Canal | Bridge 1, Duke Street Bridge to Bridge 2, Bridge Street | 2025-09-13 | same day |
| Lock 60 Crofton Lock - Lock 54 Cadley Lock. | Lock 60, Crofton Lock to Lock 54, Cadley Lock | 2025-09-19 | same day |
| Seend Locck 18 , between Bridge 153 Seend Wharf Bridge and Bridge 154. | Bridge 153, Seend Wharf to Bridge 154 Seend Lock 18 Bridge | 2026-01-19 | same day |
| Hungerford Marsh Swing Bridge 86. | Bridge 86, Marsh Swing Bridge | 2026-03-17 | same day |
| Kennet & Avon Canal between Lock 86 Greenham Lock and Bridge 53 Whitehouse footbridge | Lock 86, Greenham Lock to Bridge 53, Whitehouse Footbridge | 2026-04-05 | same day |
| Ufton Swingbridge. | Bridge 25A, Ufton Swingbridge | 2026-05-26 | same day |
| Tyle Mill Swingbridge. | Bridge 23, Tyle Mill Swingbridge | 2026-05-26 | same day |
| Lock 53 Brimslade Lock to Lock 55 Crofton Top Lock. | Lock 55, Crofton Top Lock to Lock 53, Brimslade Lock 53 | 2026-09-22 | same day |
Showing the 39 longest of 39. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 93 Heales Lock. | 5 October 2026 | 46 days |
| Between Bridge 60, Town Bridge and Bridge 58, A339 flyover, Newbury | 2 November 2026 | 41 days |
| Lock 72 Cobblers lock, near Hungerford | 11 January 2027 | 21 days |
| Lock 7, Bath Bottom Lock | 8 February 2027 | 22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 93, Heales, Midgham | Cancelled | 19 January 2026 |
| Lock 93 Heales Lock. | Published | 5 October 2026 |
| Lock 72 Cobblers lock, near Hungerford | Published | 11 January 2027 |
| Lock 7, Bath Bottom Lock | Published | 8 February 2027 |
| Between Bridge 60, Town Bridge and Bridge 58, A339 flyover, Newbury | Published | 2 November 2026 |