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Leigh Branch (L&L Canal)
7.5 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 5.9–9.1) — 85 days across 7 closures of this 11km 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 1% of this cruising season — 2 of its 231 days — across 1 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
- 7 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 7 closures on the Leigh Branch (L&L 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poolstock Lock 1 to Bridge No.3, Bamfurlong Bridge | Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch to Bridge No.3, Bamfurlong bridge | 2025-08-12 | 78 |
| Lock 85-Lock 86 - Leeds & Liverpool Canal Lock 1 - Leigh Branch | Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch | 2025-07-28 | 2 |
| Navigation Closure; Between Lock 1 and Lock 2, Leigh Branch (L&L Canal) | Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch to Lock 2, Bottom Lock | 2025-05-27 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure; Between Lock 85 and 86, Leeds & Liverpool, and Lock 1, Leigh Branch (L&L Canal) | Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch | 2025-06-03 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure; Between Lock 85 and 86, Leeds & Liverpool, and Lock 1, Leigh Branch (L&L Canal) | Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch | 2025-06-10 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure; Between Lock 86, Leeds & Liverpool, and Lock 1, Leigh Branch (L&L Canal) | Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch | 2025-06-24 | 1 |
| Between Lock 85, 86 and Lock 1 (Leigh Branch) | Lock 1, Top Lock, Leigh Branch | 2026-04-07 | 1 |
Showing the 7 longest of 7. Every row links to the notice CRT published.