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South Stratford Canal
10.9 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 9.5–12.3) — 226 days across 13 closures of this 21km 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 25% of this cruising season — 58 of its 231 days — across 4 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.
1 closure is still shut now, and 1 of those has no reopening date. Filter to it.
- Regions
- West Midlands
- On record
- 14 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 13 closures on the South 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 40, Wilmcote Top Lock | Lock 40, Wilmcote Top Lock | 2025-01-24 | 50 |
| Lock 22 Lapworth to Lock 55 Stratford upon Avon | Lock 22 to Lock 55, Warwick Road | 2026-08-02 | 51 |
| Lock 39 to Lock 51 | Lock 39, Odd Lock to Lock 51 | 2025-08-26 | 13 |
| Lock 28, Lowsonford | Lock 28, Lowsonford | 2025-09-15 | 3 |
| Lock 38, South Stratford Canal | Lock 38 | 2025-05-05 | 2 |
| Lock 36 South Stratford | Lock 36 | 2025-05-18 | 2 |
| Lock 22 (Lapworth) to Red Lion (Stratford) | Lock 22 to Red Lion | 2025-07-06 | 2 |
| Lock 40, Wilmcote Top Lock | Lock 40, Wilmcote Top Lock | 2025-08-05 | 1 |
| Between Bridge 54 and Bridge 55, Wootton Wawen | Bridge 54 to Bridge 55, Wootton Hill Farm | 2025-11-17 | 1 |
| Between Lock 30 & Lock 31, Lowsonford | Lock 30, Finwood Road to Lock 31, Ned's Lock | 2025-11-17 | 1 |
| Between Bridges 48 & 49, Preston Bagot | Bridge 48 to Bridge 49, Preston Bagot | 2026-03-26 | 1 |
| Lock 32, Lowsonford | Lock 32 | 2026-05-21 | 1 |
| South Stratford Canal-lock 28 Lowsonford | Lock 28, Lowsonford | 2026-07-26 | 1 |
Showing the 13 longest of 13. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 51, Bottom gate, Near Stratford-Upon- Avon | 4 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 51, Bottom gate, Near Stratford-Upon- Avon | Published | 4 January 2027 |