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The archive / Limehouse Basin
Limehouse Basin
Something was shut here on 7% of this cruising season — 16 of its 231 days — across 6 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
- London and South East
- 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 6 closures on the Limehouse Basin.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temporary Closure Water Management - Limehouse Lock | Lock 1, Limehouse Ship Lock | 2026-08-21 | 6 |
| Temporary Closure - Limehouse Lock | Lock 1, Limehouse Ship Lock | 2026-08-19 | 2 |
| Navigation Closure - Limehouse Basin, Limehouse Lock, London | Lock 1, Limehouse Ship Lock | 2026-04-25 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure - Limehouse Basin, Limehouse Lock and Narrow Street Swing Bridge, London | Bridge,Narrow St Swingbridge to Lock 1, Limehouse Ship Lock | 2026-06-24 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure - Limehouse Basin, Limehouse Lock, | Lock 1, Limehouse Ship Lock | 2026-07-16 | 1 |
| Navigation Closure - Limehouse Lock, Event - Great River Race | Lock 1, Limehouse Ship Lock | 2026-09-12 | same day |
Showing the 6 longest of 6. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Navigation Closure - Limehouse Lock, Limehouse Basin, London | 14 October 2026 | 2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Navigation Closure - Limehouse Lock, Limehouse Basin, London | Published | 14 October 2026 |