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Middlewich Branch (Shrop Union)
0.7 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 0.3–1.1) — 11 days across 5 closures of this 16km 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 6% of this cruising season — 15 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.
Nothing is shut on this canal today.
- Regions
- North West
- On record
- 5 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 5 closures on the Middlewich Branch (Shrop Union).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge 8 Nanney's Bridge | Bridge 8, Nanney's Bridge | 2026-05-03 | 5 |
| Bridge 8 Nanney's Bridge | Hollingshead Winding Hole to Winding Hole - Cholmondeston | 2026-05-18 | 4 |
| Bridge 22a Railway bridge Middlewich branch | Railway Bridge No 22A | 2026-04-05 | 1 |
| Bridge 8 Nanney's Bridge | Hollingshead Winding Hole to Winding Hole - Cholmondeston | 2026-05-14 | 1 |
| Bridge 1, Roving Bridge, Middlewich Branch | Bridge 1, Roving Bridge | 2025-08-03 | same day |
Showing the 5 longest of 5. Every row links to the notice CRT published.