Canal closures

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The archive / Regent's Canal

Regent's Canal

9.5 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 7.9–11.1) — 135 days across 21 closures of this 14km 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 67% of this cruising season — 155 of its 231 days — across 8 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
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.

2026-03-15one bar is one closure2026-10-31

Every closure on record

Population

Status

Period

2025 season2026 seasonAll time

Duration

Cause

Asset affected

CRT reason

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Showing all 23 closures on the Regent's Canal.

21
closures
127
closure-days
87
in cruising season
0
no reopening date
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.
The season so farweeks with a closure in force
Closures in force each monthclosures active during the month
4
1
1
2
4
1
3
2
1
2
1
2
2
2
2
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May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
London and South East12721
23 results · every closure on the Regent's CanalJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Lock 5, City Road Lock
Maintenance · Wear and tear
Islington Tunnel to Lock 5, City Road Lock2025-11-0323
Lock 9, Mile end Regents Canal
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 9, Mile End Lock2026-07-2422
Old Ford Lock, Lock 8, Regents Canal, RE-012-003
Boating Incident · Struck by boat or vehicle
Lock 8, Old Ford Lock2025-09-2020
Lock 7, Actons
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 7, Actons Lock2025-12-0118
City Road Lock closure
Suspected Vandalism · Cause not stated · 6 days before this archive
Lock 5, City Road Lock2025-04-255
RE-004-017 - Lock 1A, Hampstead Road Lock RE-004-021 - Lock 2, Hawley Lock RE-004-024 - Lock 3, Kentish Town Lock
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 1A, Hampstead Road Lock to Lock 3, Kentish Town Lock2025-05-139
Maida Hill Tunnel Closed
Information · Other cause · 2 days before this archive
Bridge 1, Warwick Avenue to Lock 3, Bypass Weir Kentish Town Lock2025-04-295
Hampstead Road - Lock 1a & 1b, Hawley - Lock 2, Kentish Town - Lock 3
Low Water Levels · Cause not stated
Lock 1A, Hampstead Road Lock to Lock 3, Kentish Town Lock2025-11-057
Navigation Closure - Regent's Canal, Lock 8 Old Ford, Bow
Repair · Struck by boat or vehicle
Lock 8, Old Ford Lock2026-05-126
Maida Hill Tunnel Closure
Information · Other cause
Bridge 1, Warwick Avenue to Lock 3, Bypass Weir Kentish Town Lock2025-05-122
Navigation Closure - Regent's Canal, Islington Tunnel, Central London
Inspections · Nothing failed
Islington Tunnel2025-09-082
Lock 2 Hawley Lock, Camden Lock Bridge, Regent's Canal, London
Boating Incident · Struck by boat or vehicle
Lock 2, Hawley Lock2026-06-182
Bridge 38, Froglane Bridge to Bridge 40, Packington Square Bridge
Event · Nothing failed
Bridge 38, Froglane Bridge to Bridge 40, Packington Square Bridge2026-09-052
Navigation Closure, Lock 5, City Road Lock
Maintenance · Cause not stated
Lock 5, City Road Lock2025-06-301
Fallen tree at Old Ford Bridge Regents Canal
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 54, Old Ford Road (B113)2025-08-261
Tree blocking navigation at Lawfords Bridge
Vegetation · Weather
Bridge 28, Lawfords Bridge2026-04-151
Lock 10, Johnsons Lock to Lock 12, Commercial Road Lock closure on the Regent’s Canal
Low Water Levels · Cause not stated
Lock 10, Johnsons Lock to Lock 12, Commercial Road Lock2026-08-051
Hampstead Road Lock 1B closed due to broken paddle
Repair · Wear and tear
Lock 1B, Hampstead Road Lock2025-08-07same day
Navigation Closure - Regent's Canal, Sturts Lock 6, Hoxton
Event · Nothing failed
Lock 6, Sturts Lock2025-09-07same day
Navigation Closure - Regent's Canal, City Road Lock, London
Event · Nothing failed
Lock 5, City Road Lock2025-09-07same day
Ongoing Overnight closures Commercial Road, Lock 12 between 3.45pm and 8amrestricted
Boating Incident · Vandalism
Lock 12, Commercial Road Lock2025-11-18245
Between Lock 12 Commercial Road and Lock 11 Salmons Lane
Maintenance · Cause not stated
Lock 11, Salmons Lane Lock to Lock 12, Commercial Road Lock2026-02-05same day
Ongoing Overnight closures at Commercial Road, Lock 12 between 3.30pm and 9amrestricted
Low Water Levels · Weather
Lock 12, Commercial Road Lock2026-08-078

Coming up

Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.

2 scheduled.
ClosureFromPlanned
Lock 2, Hawley Lock
Regent's Canal · Repair
4 January 202739 days
Bridge 31, Oblique Bridge, St Pancras, London
Regent's Canal · 3rd Party Works
29 January 202742 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.

4 notices excluded from the figures.
NoticeStateStarted
Ongoing Overnight closures Commercial Road, Lock 12 between 3.45pm and 8amCompleted18 November 2025
Ongoing Overnight closures at Commercial Road, Lock 12 between 3.30pm and 9amCompleted7 August 2026
Lock 2, Hawley LockPublished4 January 2027
Bridge 31, Oblique Bridge, St Pancras, LondonPublished29 January 2027

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