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Staffordshire & Worcestershire Cnl
6.2 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 5.6–6.7) — 463 days across 31 closures of this 75km 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 38% of this cruising season — 87 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.
Nothing is shut on this canal today.
- Regions
- West Midlands
- On record
- 36 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.
Lock 38 Penkridge Lock to Lock 37 Filance LockLock 14 Gothersley LockLock 30 Wightwick Mill LockLock 20 Botterham Bottom Lock to Lock 21 Botterham Top LockLock 18 Swindon Lock to Lock 20 Botterham Bottom LockBottom Barge LockLock 6 Kidderminster Lock to Lock 9 Debdale LockLock 34 Boggs LockBottom Barge LockLock 27 Ebstree Lock to Ebstree Pipe Bridge
Every closure on record
Showing all 31 closures on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Cnl.
31
closures
463
closure-days
108
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.
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
| Notice | Extent | Started | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock 38, Penkridge Lock | Lock 38 Penkridge Lock to Lock 37 Filance Lock | 2025-12-31 | 107 |
| Lock 36 Otherton, Penkridge | Littleton Colliery Railway Bridge 80A to Bridge 83 Lyne Hill Bridge | 2026-01-05 | 67 |
| Lock 37, Penkridge | Bridge 84, Filance Bridge to Bridge 85, Princefield Bridge | 2026-01-05 | 67 |
| York street lock - Stourport on Severn | York Street Lock | 2026-01-05 | 51 |
| Bottom Barge Lock, Stourport Basin | Bottom Barge Lock | 2026-07-10 | 42 |
| Lock 13, Stewponey Lock | Lock 13 Stewponey Lock to Bridge 32 Stewponey Old Bridge | 2026-01-05 | 32 |
| Schenectady Works Pipe Bridge No 2, Schenectady Works Pipe Bridge No 1 & Schenectady Works Road Bridge, Four Ashes, Calf Heath, Wolverhampton | Bridge 77 Calf Heath Bridge to Four Ashes Bridge No. 78A | 2025-11-24 | 25 |
| York Street Lock | York Street Lock | 2025-12-16 | 20 |
| Lock 19 Marsh Lock | Lock 18 Swindon Lock to Lock 20 Botterham Bottom Lock | 2026-07-09 | 13 |
| North of Dimmingsdale Bridge | Dimmingsdale Bridge to Bridge 54 Mopps Farm Bridge | 2025-11-19 | 9 |
| Dimmingsdale Bridge, Bridge 53 | Lock 28 Dimmingsdale Lock to Lock 29 Wightwick Lock | 2025-06-22 | 5 |
| Lock 10 Whittington Lock | Lock 10 Whittington Lock | 2025-11-14 | 5 |
| Barge Lock, Stourport-on-Severn, Staffs & Worcester Canal | Bottom Barge Lock | 2025-06-16 | 4 |
| North of Dimmingsdale Bridge and several locations south to Caunsall Bridge | Dimmingsdale Bridge to Bridge 54 Mopps Farm Bridge | 2025-11-16 | 3 |
| Lock 34 Boggs Lock, Penkridge, Stafford ST19 5PR | Lock 34 Boggs Lock | 2026-08-31 | 3 |
| Near Gothersley winding hole, between Bridge 34, Prestwood Bridge & Bridge 35, Gothersley Bridge | Bridge 34 Prestwood Bridge to Bridge 35 Gothersley Bridge | 2025-05-30 | 2 |
| Ebstree Lock, Staffs and Worcester Canal | Lock 27 Ebstree Lock to Ebstree Pipe Bridge | 2026-09-08 | 2 |
| Between Stourport, Bridge 4, Wallfield Bridge and Lock 6, Kidderminster Lock | Bridge 4, Wallfield Bridge to Lock 6 Kidderminster Lock | 2025-08-21 | 1 |
| Bridge 99, Meadow Bridge | Bridge 99 Meadow Bridge | 2025-09-01 | 1 |
| Between Bridge 28 Whittington Horse Bridge & Bridge 29, Kinver Bridge | Bridge 28 Whittington Horse Bridge to Bridge 29, Kinver Bridge | 2025-09-15 | 1 |
| Between Bratch Locks and Bridge 49 Awbridge | Bridge 49 Awbridge Bridge to Lock 26 Awbridge Lock | 2025-10-04 | 1 |
| Lock 27 Ebstree Lock, Staffs and Worcester Canal | Lock 27 Ebstree Lock | 2025-11-15 | 1 |
| Bridge 34 (Prestwood Bridge) | Bridge 34 Prestwood Bridge | 2026-03-11 | 1 |
| Fallen tree - between Hyde Lock & Kinver Lock, Staffs & Worcester Canal | Lock 12 Hyde Lock to Lock 11 Kinver Lock | 2025-06-13 | same day |
| Debdale Lock 9 DY10 3RJ SW-012-002-01 | Lock 8 Wolverley Lock to Lock 10 Whittington Lock | 2025-07-19 | same day |
| Lock 24 Bratch Middle Lock | Lock 24 Bratch Middle Lock | 2025-09-15 | same day |
| 400 Metres south of Kinver Lock | Bridge 28 Whittington Horse Bridge to Lock 11 Kinver Lock | 2025-12-02 | same day |
| Lock 14 Gothersley Lock | Lock 14 Gothersley Lock | 2026-03-26 | same day |
| Wightwick Mill Lock, Wolverhampton | Lock 30 Wightwick Mill Lock | 2026-06-10 | same day |
| Botterham Staircase Lock | Lock 20 Botterham Bottom Lock to Lock 21 Botterham Top Lock | 2026-07-02 | same day |
| Kidderminster Lock 6 to Debdale Lock 9 | Lock 6 Kidderminster Lock to Lock 9 Debdale Lock | 2026-08-11 | same day |
Showing the 31 longest of 31. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Lock 29, Wightwick | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Lock 24, Bratch Middle lock | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Lock 18, Swindon lock, Swindon | 2 November 2026 | 11 days |
| Lock 38, Penkridge Lock | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Lock 35 | 2 November 2026 | 46 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bottom Barge Lock Top Gate | Cancelled | 2 February 2026 |
| Lock 21 Botterham Lock | Cancelled | 2 February 2026 |
| Bottom Barge Lock, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal | Completed | 7 September 2026 |
| Lock 29, Wightwick | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 24, Bratch Middle lock | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 18, Swindon lock, Swindon | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 38, Penkridge Lock | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 35 | Published | 2 November 2026 |