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The archive / Lancaster Canal
Lancaster Canal
2.7 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 2.4–3.0) — 244 days across 35 closures of this 91km 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 18% of this cruising season — 41 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.
Nothing is shut on this canal today.
- Regions
- North West
- On record
- 35 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.
Bridge 26, Salwick Bridge to Bridge 27, Six Mile BridgeBridge 94, Ashton Lane Bridge to CULVERT - SewerBridge 18, Malt Kiln BridgeBridge 91, Brantbeck BridgeBridge 67, Ford Green BridgeBridge 10, Towpath Bridge to Bridge 19, Quakers BridgeAqueduct B.107, Lune AqueductBridge 93, Carr Lane Bridge to Bridge 94, Ashton Lane Bridge
Every closure on record
Showing all 35 closures on the Lancaster Canal.
35
closures
244
closure-days
94
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.
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
| Notice | Extent | Started | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Between Bridge 26 and 27 | Bridge 26, Salwick Bridge to Bridge 27, Six Mile Bridge | 2026-02-27 | 27 |
| Between Bridge 24 & Bridge 26 | Bridge 24, Salwick Hall Bridge to Bridge 26, Salwick Bridge | 2025-11-17 | 23 |
| Bridge 18 | Bridge 18, Malt Kiln Bridge | 2026-03-26 | 18 |
| Bridge 11A | Bridge 11A, Blackpool Road Bridge | 2026-02-10 | 16 |
| Bridge 47 | Bridge 47, Green Man Bridge | 2025-11-14 | 12 |
| Bridge 11a - Bridge 11 | Bridge 11A, Blackpool Road Bridge to Bridge 11, Roebuck Street Bridge | 2025-11-16 | 11 |
| Between Bridge 127, Thwaite End Bridge and Bridge 128, Carnforth Bridge | Bridge 127, Thwaite End Bridge to Bridge 128, Carnforth Bridge | 2025-11-17 | 11 |
| Navigation and Towpath Closure; Between Bridge 30 and Bridge 32, Lancaster Canal | Bridge 30, Roots Bridge to Bridge 32, Swillbrook Bridge | 2025-07-01 | 10 |
| Bridge 56, Turners Bridge | Bridge 56, Turners Bridge | 2025-11-14 | 10 |
| Between Bridge 76, Corless Bridge & Bridge 77, Smiths Bridge | Bridge 76, Corless Bridge to Bridge 77, Smiths Bridge | 2026-02-24 | 9 |
| Bridge 10, Towpath Bridge to Bridge 19, Quaker's Bridge | Bridge 10, Towpath Bridge to Bridge 19, Quakers Bridge | 2026-05-26 | 9 |
| Bridge 31, Stone Chimney Bridge | Bridge 31, Stone Chimney Bridge | 2025-09-02 | 8 |
| Between Bridge 92 and Bridge 93 | Bridge 92, Burrow Beck Bridge to Bridge 93, Carr Lane Bridge | 2026-01-27 | 8 |
| Bridge 93, Carr Lane Bridge | Bridge 93, Carr Lane Bridge | 2026-02-06 | 7 |
| Between Bridge 23 & 24 | Bridge 23, Ward's House Bridge to Bridge 24, Salwick Hall Bridge | 2025-07-07 | 6 |
| Bridges 26 to 27 | Bridge 26, Salwick Bridge to Bridge 27, Six Mile Bridge | 2025-10-07 | 6 |
| Bridge 128, Carnforth Bridge | Bridge 128, Carnforth Bridge | 2025-12-18 | 6 |
| Bridge 84, Ellel Grange Bridge | Bridge 84, Ellel Grange Bridge to Culvert 49 | 2026-01-27 | 6 |
| Bridge 67, Ford Green Bridge | Bridge 67, Ford Green Bridge | 2026-04-07 | 6 |
| Bridges 130 to 131 | Bridge 130, Kellet Lane Bridge to Bridge 131, Capernwray Bridge | 2025-10-06 | 4 |
| Bridge 75, Ratcliffe Bridge | Bridge 75, Ratcliffe Bridge | 2025-11-04 | 4 |
| Between Bridge 92 - 94 | Bridge 92, Burrow Beck Bridge to Bridge 94, Ashton Lane Bridge | 2025-11-17 | 4 |
| Bridges 118 to 119 | Bridge 118, Hest Bank Bridge to Bridge 119, Hatlex Bridge | 2025-10-07 | 3 |
| Bridge 134 | Bridge 134, Hodgesons Bridge | 2025-10-07 | 3 |
| Bridge 53, Catterall Bridge | Bridge 53, Catterall Bridge | 2025-11-14 | 3 |
| Bridge 91, Brantbeck Bridge | Bridge 91, Brantbeck Bridge | 2026-04-05 | 3 |
| South of Bridge 36 offside moorings | Bridge 36, Moons Bridge | 2025-11-15 | 2 |
| Bridge 94, Ashton Lane Bridge | Bridge 94, Ashton Lane Bridge to CULVERT - Sewer | 2026-03-25 | 2 |
| Lune Aqueduct | Aqueduct B.107, Lune Aqueduct | 2026-06-01 | 2 |
| Between Bridge 93 and 94, Lancaster Canal | Bridge 93, Carr Lane Bridge to Bridge 94, Ashton Lane Bridge | 2026-06-03 | 2 |
| Navigation Closure; Between Bridge 93 and Bridge 94, Lancaster Canal | Bridge 93, Carr Lane Bridge to Bridge 94, Ashton Lane Bridge | 2025-05-13 | 1 |
| Bridge 128, Carnforth Bridge | Bridge 128, Carnforth Bridge | 2025-12-17 | 1 |
| Bridge 116, Rakes Head Bridge | Bridge 116, Rakes Head Bridge | 2026-01-27 | 1 |
| Bridge 31 | Bridge 31, Stone Chimney Bridge | 2025-07-16 | same day |
| Between Bridge 30 to Bridge 32 | Bridge 30, Roots Bridge to Bridge 32, Swillbrook Bridge | 2026-02-03 | same day |
Showing the 35 longest of 35. Every row links to the notice CRT published.