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River Soar

7.5 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 6.6–8.3) — 301 days across 25 closures of this 40km 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 19% of this cruising season — 43 of its 231 days — across 10 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.

2 closures are still shut now, and 1 of those has no reopening date. Filter to them.

Regions: East Midlands
On record: 25 closures

The season, closure by closure

Lock 56 - Kegworth New Lock Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock Lock 55 - Zouch Lock Lock 54 - Bishop Meadow Lock Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock Lock 48 - Cossington Lock

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

Every closure on record

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Showing all 25 closures on the River Soar.

closures

301

closure-days

152

in cruising season

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

May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26

Whereclosure-days by region

East Midlands30125

25 results · every closure on the River SoarJump to table

Notice	Extent	Started	Days
Kegworth Flood Lock 57 Maintenance · Wear and tear	Lock 57 - Kegworth Shallow Flood Lock	2025-09-01	53
Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) from Kings Lock though to River Soar at Redhill Lock High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2026-01-09	47
Lock 56 - Kegworth New Lock - Near Kegworth Repair · Wear and tear	Lock 56 - Kegworth New Lock	2025-11-03	46
Kegworth New Lock 56 Repair · Wear and tear	Lock 56 - Kegworth New Lock	2026-02-02	42
Zouch Lock 55 Repair · Wear and tear · no reopening date	Lock 55 - Zouch Lock	2026-08-20	33
Cossington Lock 48 Repair · Wear and tear	Lock 48 - Cossington Lock	2026-09-07	15
Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) from Kings Lock 38 though to River Soar at Redhill Lock 59 High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2025-12-16	11
From Kings Lock 38 through to the River Soar at Redhill Lock 59 High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2025-12-04	8
Kings Lock 38 through to Redhill Lock 59 High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2025-11-12	6
Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) from Kings Lock though to River Soar at Redhill Lock High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2026-02-27	6
Between Thurmaston Lock and the Hope & Anchor Pub - River Soar Vegetation · Weather	Lock 46 - Thurmaston Lock to River Soar - 010	2025-05-14	5
Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) from Kings Lock through to the River Soar at Redhill lock. High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2025-11-29	5
Between Pillings Lock 52 and Bishop Meadow Lock 54 High Water Levels · Weather	Lock 52 - Pillings Lock to Lock 54 - Bishop Meadow Lock	2025-11-13	4
Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) from Kings Lock through to the River Soar at Redhill Lock. High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2025-11-22	4
Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) from Kings Lock though to River Soar at Redhill Lock High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2026-03-13	3
Between North Lock 42 and Limekiln Lock 43 Low Water Levels · Cause not stated	Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock	2026-06-19	3
Bishop Meadow Lock 54 Repair · Cause not stated	Lock 54 - Bishop Meadow Lock	2026-08-21	3
River Soar Frog Island section- Pound between North Lock and Lime Kiln Lock Low Water Levels · Cause not stated	Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock	2025-09-13	2
Between Junction Lock 47 and Cossington Lock 48 Vegetation · Weather	River Soar - 012	2025-10-15	2
Between Kings Lock 38 and Redhill Lock 59 High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2026-08-28	2
Between Belgrave Lock 44 and Limekiln Lock 43 Low Water Levels · Cause not stated	Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock to Lock 44 - Belgrave Lock	2025-09-03	1
Between Limekiln Lock 43 and North Lock 42 High Water Levels · Cause not stated	Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock	2025-07-02	same day
Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) from Kings Lock though to River Soar at Redhill Lock High Water Levels · Weather	Bridge 2 (See note) to Lock 59 - Redhill Lock	2026-05-28	same day
Between North Lock 42 and Limekiln Lock 43 Low Water Levels · Cause not stated	Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock	2026-06-16	same day
Between North Lock 42 and Limekiln Lock 43 Low Water Levels · Cause not stated	Lock 42 - North Lock to Lock 43 - Limekiln Lock	2026-07-07	same day

Showing the 25 longest of 25. Every row links to the notice CRT published.

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