Canal closures

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Weaver Navigation

26.9 closure-days per kilometre (95% range 25.2–28.7) — 914 days across 10 closures of this 34km 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 83% of this cruising season — 192 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
North West
On record
10 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.

2026-03-15one bar is one closure2026-10-31

Every closure on record

Population

Status

Period

2025 season2026 seasonAll time

Duration

Cause

Asset affected

CRT reason

Region

Showing all 10 closures on the Weaver Navigation.

10
closures
796
closure-days
560
in cruising season
2
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.
The season so farweeks with a closure in force
Closures in force each monthclosures active during the month
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
5
2
3
2
2
1
1
2
3
2
May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26
Whereclosure-days by region
North West79610
10 results · every closure on the Weaver NavigationJump to table
NoticeExtentStartedDays
Navigation Closure: Anderton Boat Lift
Repair · Cause not stated · no reopening date · 118 days before this archive
Anderton Boat Lift2025-01-03509
Marsh Lock
Repair · Wear and tear
Marsh Lock2025-09-12202
Marsh Lock
Repair · Wear and tear · no reopening date
Marsh Lock2026-07-1668
Weaver Navigation
High Water Levels · Weather
Church Cut Bridge to Red Lion Visitor Moorings2025-12-157
Sutton Weaver Swing Bridge
Repair · Wear and tear
Elsan, Sutton Weaver Swing Bridge2025-12-084
Saltersford Lock
Repair · Cause not stated
Saltersford Large Lock2025-08-132
Weaver Navigation - High Flows - Storm Claudia
High Water Levels · Weather
Church Cut Bridge to Red Lion Visitor Moorings2025-11-152
Weaver Navigation
High Water Levels · Weather
Church Cut Bridge to Red Lion Visitor Moorings2025-12-011
Marsh Lock to Winsford Flash
High Water Levels · Weather
Marsh Lock to Vale Royal Small Lock2026-02-091
Marsh Lock
Repair · Wear and tear
Marsh Lock2026-08-28same day

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