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Stourbridge Canal
Something was shut here on 4% of this cruising season — 9 of its 231 days — across 3 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
- 12 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 9 closures on the Stourbridge 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 13, Stourbridge | Lock 16, Stourbridge Bottom Lock to Lock 1, Stourbridge Top Lock | 2026-02-23 | 18 |
| Lock 2, Stourbridge | Lock 2, Stourbridge | 2026-02-16 | 10 |
| Stourton Top Lock to Wordsley Junction, Stourbridge | Stourton Lock 1 (Top Lock) to Wordsley Jct Bridge, Stourbridge | 2026-03-03 | 7 |
| Lock 15, Stourbridge | Lock 15, Stourbridge | 2025-07-17 | 4 |
| Lock 3, Brierly Hill Road | Lock 3, Stourbridge | 2025-12-25 | 4 |
| Brierley Bridge | Farmers Bridge, Stourbridge to Brierley Bridge | 2026-03-12 | 4 |
| Stourbridge Locks 1-16 | Lock 16, Stourbridge Bottom Lock to Lock 1, Stourbridge Top Lock | 2026-08-14 | 3 |
| Stourton Locks 1 - 2 Low Water Levels and boat possible capsize. | Stourton Lock 4 (Bottom Lock) to Lock 16, Stourbridge Bottom Lock | 2026-05-25 | 2 |
| Brierley Bridge | Farmers Bridge, Stourbridge to Brierley Bridge | 2026-03-12 | 1 |
Showing the 9 longest of 9. Every row links to the notice CRT published.
Coming up
Scheduled but not yet started, so in no figure above.
| Closure | From | Planned |
|---|---|---|
| Stourton Lock 4 (Bottom Lock) | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Lock 5, Stourbridge | 2 November 2026 | 46 days |
| Lock 1, Stourbridge, Top lock | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stourton Lock 4 (Bottom Lock) | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 5, Stourbridge | Published | 2 November 2026 |
| Lock 1, Stourbridge, Top lock | Published | 2 November 2026 |