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The archive / Rufford Branch (L&L Canal)
Rufford Branch (L&L Canal)
9.0 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 7.3–10.8) — 103 days across 6 closures of this 11km 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.
Nothing is shut on this canal today.
- Regions
- North West
- On record
- 9 closures
Every closure on record
Showing all 6 closures on the Rufford Branch (L&L 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 2 Rufford Branch | Lock No.1, Rufford Branch to Lock 7, Rufford Lock | 2026-02-09 | 29 |
| Lock 5, near bridge 3, near Burscough | Lock No.1, Rufford Branch to Lock 5, German's Lock | 2026-01-26 | 25 |
| Lock 1, Rufford branch | Lock 1, Top Lock Swing Bridge | 2025-08-18 | 18 |
| Lock 5, Rufford Branch, German's Lock | Lock 5, German's Lock | 2025-11-21 | 14 |
| Lock 2 , Rufford Branch , Burscough | Lock 2, 2Nd Lock Rufford Branch | 2025-11-10 | 11 |
| Lock 2, Rufford Branch | Lock 2, 2Nd Lock Rufford Branch | 2025-06-04 | 6 |
Showing the 6 longest of 6. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 8, Rufford | 4 January 2027 | 67 days |
| Lock 6, Chicken Lock, Rufford | 4 January 2027 | 53 days |
| Lock 1 Rufford Branch | 25 January 2027 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 8, Rufford | Published | 4 January 2027 |
| Lock 6, Chicken Lock, Rufford | Published | 4 January 2027 |
| Lock 1 Rufford Branch | Published | 25 January 2027 |