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Lee Navigation
10.3 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 9.3–11.2) — 435 days across 42 closures of this 42km 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 83% of this cruising season — 192 of its 231 days — across 19 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.
1 closure is still shut now, and 1 of those has no reopening date. Filter to it.
- Regions
- London and South East
- On record
- 42 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 2, Ware LockLock 8, Aqueduct LockLock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern SideLock 9, Cheshunt LockLock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern SideLock 17, Tottenham Lock, Eastern Side to Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Western SideBridge 73, Railway to Bridge 74, Folly BridgeLee Navigation - 010Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, East Side to Lock 13, Enfield LockLock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, West SideWater Point, Lock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, East SideLock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, East SideLock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, West SideLock 13, Enfield LockLock 13, Enfield LockLock 13, Enfield LockLock 16, Stonebridge Lock, Eastern SideLock 16, Stonebridge Lock, Western Side to Electric Services BridgeLock 17, Tottenham Lock, Eastern Side
Every closure on record
Showing all 42 closures on the Lee Navigation.
42
closures
435
closure-days
357
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Ware Lock | Lock 2, Ware Lock | 2026-01-21 | 244 |
| Tottenham Lock 17 | Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Western Side | 2025-07-25 | 45 |
| Lee Navigation, Between Bridge 27 - Chalk Bridge and Bridge 28 - Bleak Hall Bridge (A406), Enfield, N18 3QQ. | Bridge 27, Chalk Bridge to Bridge 28, Bleak Hall Bridge (A406) | 2025-09-01 | 25 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Tottenham Locks, Tottenham | Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Western Side | 2025-07-02 | 19 |
| Navigation Closure Between Bridge 27 Chalk Bridge and Bridge 28 Bleak Hall Bridge (A406), Edmonton | Bridge 27, Chalk Bridge to Bridge 28, Bleak Hall Bridge (A406) | 2025-09-01 | 15 |
| Tottenham Lock | Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Eastern Side | 2025-09-21 | 12 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Ware Lock, Ware | Lock 2, Ware Lock | 2026-01-09 | 11 |
| Between Chalk Bridge 27 and Bleak Hall Bridge (A406) 28 | Bridge 27, Chalk Bridge to Bridge 28, Bleak Hall Bridge (A406) | 2025-11-11 | 9 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Lock 10, Waltham Common Lock and Lock 9, Cheshunt Lock, Cheshunt | Lock 10, Waltham Common Lock to Lock 9, Cheshunt Lock | 2025-08-20 | 7 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Pickett's Lock Lane , Edmonton | Lock 15, Picketts Lock | 2025-09-29 | 4 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Lock 8, Aqueduct Lock, Broxbourne | Lock 8, Aqueduct Lock | 2026-04-10 | 4 |
| Lock 19, Old Ford Lock | Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern Side | 2026-04-12 | 4 |
| Navigation Closure, Hardmead Lock - Lock 3 | Lock 3, Hardmead Lock | 2025-12-19 | 3 |
| Tottenham Lock Eastern & Western Side, Lee Navigation | Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Eastern Side to Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Western Side | 2026-06-22 | 3 |
| Navigation Closure - River Stort, Large tree blocking navigation | Bridge 73, Railway to Bridge 74, Folly Bridge | 2026-07-03 | 3 |
| Navigation Closure - Lock 15, Picketts Lock and Lock 14, Ponders End Lock. | Lock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, West Side | 2026-08-14 | 3 |
| Lock 17 Tottenham - Lee Navigation | Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Western Side | 2025-08-31 | 2 |
| Marsh Lock Lock 12 , near Waltham Town. | Lock 12, Rammey Marsh Lock | 2025-09-14 | 2 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Lock 12, Rammey Marsh Lock, Waltham Town | Lock 12, Rammey Marsh Lock | 2025-09-14 | 2 |
| Lock 19, Old Ford Lock | Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern Side | 2025-09-23 | 2 |
| Tottenham Lock | Lee Navigation - 010 | 2026-07-04 | 2 |
| LN-016-005 - Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, East Side to LN-019-008 Lock 13, Enfield Loc | Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, East Side to Lock 13, Enfield Lock | 2026-07-11 | 2 |
| 200 metres upstream of Stonebridge Lock and Electrical se | Lock 16, Stonebridge Lock, Western Side to Electric Services Bridge | 2026-08-30 | 2 |
| Lock 11 Lee Navigation Waltham Town | Lock 11, Waltham Town Lock | 2025-06-09 | 1 |
| Lock 8 Aqueduct Lock Closed due to damaged paddle | Lock 8, Aqueduct Lock | 2025-06-11 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure due to Fallen Tree - Lee Navigation, Downstream bridge 46, Cadmore lane, Cheshunt | Bridge 46, Cadmore Lane | 2025-06-25 | 1 |
| Rammey Marsh Lock | Lock 12, Rammey Marsh Lock | 2025-09-14 | 1 |
| Old Ford Lock 19 on the Lee Navigation | Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern Side | 2025-11-09 | 1 |
| Old Ford Lock out of service | Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern Side | 2025-12-08 | 1 |
| Lock 19 Old Ford, Lea Navigation | Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern Side | 2026-06-20 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, pound between Picketts Lock 15 and Ponders End Lock 14, Ponders End | Lock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, West Side | 2026-07-30 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Ponders End Lock 14 to Picketts Lock 15, Ponders End | Lock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, East Side | 2026-08-13 | 1 |
| Tottenham Lock | Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Eastern Side | 2026-09-05 | 1 |
| Old Ford Lock 19,Lee Navigation | Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Eastern Side to Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Western Side | 2025-07-07 | same day |
| Old Ford Lock (Lock 19) - Lee Navigation | Lock 19, Old Ford Lock, Western Side | 2025-07-16 | same day |
| Tottenham Lock | Lock 17, Tottenham Lock, Eastern Side | 2026-02-15 | same day |
| Lock 9, Cheshunt Lock | Lock 9, Cheshunt Lock | 2026-05-26 | same day |
| Navigation Closure - Old River Lea, Between picketts and Ponders Lock. , ponders and pickett | Water Point, Lock 15, Picketts Lock to Lock 14, Ponders End Lock, East Side | 2026-08-06 | same day |
| Lock 14, Enfield Lock | Lock 13, Enfield Lock | 2026-08-15 | same day |
| Lock 13, Enfield Lock | Lock 13, Enfield Lock | 2026-08-15 | same day |
| Lock 13, Enfield Lock | Lock 13, Enfield Lock | 2026-08-15 | same day |
| Navigation Closure - Lee Navigation, Lock 16, Stonebridge Lock, Tottenham | Lock 16, Stonebridge Lock, Eastern Side | 2026-08-26 | same day |
Showing the 42 longest of 42. Every row links to the notice CRT published.