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Macclesfield Canal
10.8 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 9.8–11.8) — 478 days across 29 closures of this 44km 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 34% of this cruising season — 79 of its 231 days — across 4 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
- North West
- On record
- 30 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 29 closures on the Macclesfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marple & Bosley Lock Flights | Lock 1 to Lock 16 | 2025-07-04 | 119 |
| Navigation and Towpath Closure: Between Bridge 51, Cowley Bridge and Bosley Lock 12, Macclesfield Canal | Bridge 51, Cowley Bridge to Bosley Lock 12 | 2025-03-28 | 55 |
| Bosley Flight | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Lock 12 | 2026-08-11 | 42 |
| Bosley Lock 7 | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Lock 12 | 2025-11-10 | 32 |
| Lock 1 to Lock 12, Bosley, Maccelesfield Canal | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Services | 2026-05-16 | 31 |
| Navigation Closure: Between Bridge 26 and Bridge 27, Bollington, Macclesfield Canal | Bridge 26, Sugar Lane Bridge to Bridge 27, Kerridge Road Bridge | 2025-05-28 | 28 |
| Lock 4, Bosley | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Lock 12 | 2025-10-13 | 18 |
| Bridge 91, Tram Road Bridge | Bridge 91, Tram Road Bridge | 2025-11-17 | 14 |
| Bridge 51 | Bridge 51, Cowley Bridge | 2025-11-15 | 13 |
| Lock 7, Bosley weir | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Lock 12 | 2025-10-06 | 11 |
| Bridge 49, Royal Oak Swingbridge | Bridge 49, Royal Oak Swingbridge | 2025-11-17 | 11 |
| Bridge 33, Macclesfield Canal | Bridge 33, Higherfold Bridge | 2026-01-23 | 10 |
| Bridge 33, Higherfold bridge | Bridge 33, Higherfold Bridge | 2025-11-17 | 9 |
| Bridge 52, Crowholt Bridge | Bridge 52, Crowholt Br | 2025-11-17 | 9 |
| Between Bridge 46 Dane Moss Bridge and Bridge 47 Broadhursts Swing Bridge | Bridge 46, Dane Moss Bridge to Bridge 47, Broadhursts Swing Br | 2025-11-17 | 9 |
| Bridge 53, Locketts Bridge | Bridge 53, Locketts Br | 2025-11-17 | 9 |
| Bridge 21, Hibberts Brow Bridge | Bridge 21, Hibberts Brow Bridge | 2025-11-17 | 7 |
| Bridge 70 | Bridge 9A - Footbridge | 2025-10-06 | 4 |
| Between Bridge 64, Pearsons Bridge and Bridge 65 Stanleys Bridge | Bridge 64, Pearsons Bridge to Bridge 65, Stanleys Bridge | 2026-01-30 | 3 |
| Clarence Mill Footbridge, Bollington, Macclesfield canal | Bridge 26A Clarence Mill Footbridge | 2025-12-06 | 2 |
| Between bridges 64 & 65 | Bridge 64, Pearsons Bridge to Bridge 65, Stanleys Bridge | 2026-01-31 | 2 |
| Bosley Lock Flight | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Lock 12 | 2026-03-30 | 2 |
| Bridge 26A Macclesfield Canal | Bridge 26A Clarence Mill Footbridge | 2025-10-03 | 1 |
| Bridge 49, Royal Oak Swing Bridge | Bridge 49, Royal Oak Swingbridge | 2025-12-02 | 1 |
| Bosley Lock Flight, Lock 1 to Lock 12 | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Lock 12 | 2025-12-23 | 1 |
| Bridge 49, Royal Oak Swing Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal | Bridge 49, Royal Oak Swingbridge | 2026-02-18 | 1 |
| Navigation and towpath closure; Between Bridge 21 and Bridge 22, Macclesfield Canal | Bridge 21, Hibberts Brow Bridge to Bridge 22, Bartons Bridge | 2025-05-27 | same day |
| Bosley Lock Flight, Locks 1 to 12, Macclesfield Canal | Bosley Lock 1 to Bosley Lock 12 | 2026-02-05 | same day |
| Bridge 8 To Bridge 9 | Bridge 8, Bancrofts Bridge to Bridge 9, Windlehurst Bridge | 2026-07-14 | same day |
Showing the 29 longest of 29. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Bosley Lock 11 | 23 November 2026 | 11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bosley Lock 11 | Published | 23 November 2026 |