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Sheffield & South Yorkshire Nav
2.9 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 2.3–3.4) — 107 days across 19 closures of this 37km 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 14% of this cruising season — 32 of its 231 days — across 9 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
- Yorkshire and North East
- On record
- 19 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 19 closures on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Nav.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don Doors and Doncaster Lock - Now OPEN | Doncaster Lock | 2026-02-05 | 25 |
| Doncaster Lock | Doncaster Lock | 2025-12-16 | 20 |
| Near Mexborough Railway bridge, bridge 49 | Conisbrough Railway Bridge | 2025-12-28 | 11 |
| Don Doors and Doncaster Lock | Doncaster Lock | 2026-01-26 | 11 |
| Tinsley No.3 Lock to Holmes Lock - CLOSED | Tinsley No.3 Lock to Tinsley No.12 Lock | 2026-09-14 | 8 |
| Long Sandall - Visitor Moorings CLOSED | Long Sandal Lock - Visitor Moorings | 2025-07-04 | 7 |
| Don doors and Doncaster Lock - NOW OPEN | Doncaster Lock | 2026-01-22 | 4 |
| Eastwood (Sir Frank Price) Lock | Eastwood (Sir Frank Price) Lock | 2026-05-14 | 4 |
| Tinsley Flight - closed 12th and 13th of September | Lock 1 Tinsley to Tinsley No.12 Lock | 2026-09-10 | 4 |
| Rotherham flood gate - closed | Rotherham Lock | 2025-11-14 | 3 |
| Mexborough Top Lock to Mexborough Low Lock | Mexborough Top Lock to Mexborough Low Lock | 2026-06-26 | 3 |
| Long Sandall Lock | Long Sandall Lock | 2025-07-06 | 2 |
| Tinsley flight - CLOSED 29th-30th August | Lock 1 Tinsley to Tinsley No.12 Lock | 2026-08-29 | 2 |
| Sprotbrough Lock | Sprotbrough Lock | 2026-05-20 | 1 |
| CLOSURE - Swinton (Waddington) Lock to Sprotbrough Lock | Swinton (Waddington) Lock to Sprotbrough Lock | 2026-06-01 | 1 |
| Barnby Dun Lift Bridge | Barnby Dun Lift Bridge | 2026-08-02 | 1 |
| Mexborough Low Lock - Downstream Sluice Paddle, Diver Investigations | Mexborough Low Lock | 2025-07-03 | same day |
| Doncaster Lock & Don Doors - New Junction | Doncaster Lock | 2025-09-21 | same day |
| Mexborough Top Lock | Mexborough Top Lock | 2026-05-13 | same day |
Showing the 19 longest of 19. Every row links to the notice CRT published.