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The archive / North Stratford Canal
North Stratford Canal
3.7 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 2.8–4.5) — 74 days across 23 closures of this 20km 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 9% of this cruising season — 21 of its 231 days — across 12 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
- West Midlands
- On record
- 25 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 23 closures on the North Stratford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock 20, Kingswood | Lock 20 | 2026-01-05 | 46 |
| Lapworth Lock 9 | Lock 9 | 2025-12-08 | 11 |
| Near Bridge 25, Stratford Road | Bridge 25, Stratford Road | 2026-09-01 | 3 |
| Bridge 7 | Bridge 7, Solihull High Street | 2025-09-15 | 2 |
| SN-020-013-02 - Lock 17 Bottom Gate | Lock 17 | 2026-07-18 | 2 |
| Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2025-08-27 | 1 |
| Bridge 9, Haslucks Green Road | Bridge 9, Haslucks Green Road | 2025-10-04 | 1 |
| Lock 12, Lapworth | Lock 12 | 2025-10-07 | 1 |
| Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-01-12 | 1 |
| Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-04-23 | 1 |
| Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge. | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-05-31 | 1 |
| Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-06-11 | 1 |
| Lock 2, Lapworth Top Lock | Lock 2, Lapworth Top Lock | 2026-08-20 | 1 |
| Bridge 8 Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-09-03 | 1 |
| Near Bridge 14, Dickens Heath | Bridge 14 | 2026-09-21 | 1 |
| Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2025-07-21 | same day |
| Lock 16, Lapworth | Lock 16 | 2025-08-08 | same day |
| Lock 14, Lapworth | Lock 14 | 2025-08-12 | same day |
| Lock 11, Lapworth | Lock 11 | 2025-08-13 | same day |
| Bridge 23, Ashford Lane | Bridge 23, Ashford Lane | 2026-07-25 | same day |
| Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-07-27 | same day |
| Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-08-25 | same day |
| North Stratford Canal, Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | Bridge 8, Shirley Drawbridge | 2026-08-29 | same day |
Showing the 23 longest of 23. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 11, near Kingswood, Warwickshire | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Lock 14, near kingswood, Warwickshire | 2 November 2026 | 46 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 11, near Kingswood, Warwickshire | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 14, near kingswood, Warwickshire | Published | 2 November 2026 |