THOUSANDS of banking customers who rely on their local branch will lose out this year as 200 outlets close.
The closures come as more people turn to digital and online banking.
Data from UK cash machine network, LINK, tracks any planned branch closures across the UK.
The website reveals there are 200 planned closures for 2023. A number have already pulled up their shutters this year.
HSBC is set to close 114 branches and NatWest will bring down the shutters on 34 branches.
Lloyds Bank will shut eight outlets and Barclays will close 26.
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TSB is to close nine branches this year.
Meanwhile, Halifax will close three branches and Santander will close five. Nationwide will close a single branch.
If there are no banks in your town you should be able to do some basic banking at the local Post Office.
Many banks also offer a mobile banking service.
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This is where your bank brings a bus to your local area offering the services that are usually available at at your permanent branch.
You should call up your bank to see if it runs a banking bus and they will be able to tell you where and when it will be parked.
Other banks use buildings such as village halls or libraries to offer mobile banking services.
Here is a full list of the 200 bank branches that are going to close along with the date they are planning on pulling down the shutters.
Check to see if your bank is one of them:
Barclays closures
- Amersham – March 1
- Bargoed – April 14
- Barnoldswick – April 14
- Birmingham – March 10
- Bishop Auckland – April 21
- Bridlington – March 6
- Dagenham – March 3
- Ellesmere Port – March 2
- Flitwick – April 14
- Guiseley – April 12
- Hunstanton – April 12
- Keswick – April 21
- Liskeard – March 2
- Leeds – April 21
- London, Walworth Road – April 13
- London, Tower Bridge Road – April 19
- London, Green Street -April 20
- Macclesfield – April 14
- Milton Keynes – April 18
- Sittingbourne – March 8
- Shenfield – April 19
- Sleaford – March 8
- Swansea – March 7
- Torquay – March 8
- Warley – April 21
- Weymouth – March 3
Halifax closures
- Birmingham – January 25
- Leeds – March 29
- Sheerness – May 18
HSBC closures
- Abergavenny – April 18
- Alton – April 25
- Arnold – May 9
- Ashton-Under-Lyne – August 1
- Beccles – June 27
- Bethnal Green – August 15
- Bexhill-On-Sea – April 18
- Bicester – June 20
- Bideford – May 2
- Blackwood – July 25
- Blandford Forum – April 18
- Bognor Regis – July 18
- Brecon – May 9
- Bridport – May 23
- Brighouse – May 16
- Brombrough – July 18
- Chepstow – June 6
- Chippenham – August 15
- Christchurch – July 25
- Cirencester – August 8
- Coalville – July 4
- Coleraine – May 2
- Colwyn Bay – August 15
- Cowbridge – TBC
- Cromer – April 18
- Denbigh – August 8
- Didcot – May 9
- Dorchester – August 22
- Dover – May 9
- Downend – April 25
- Droitwich – July 4
- Dundee – May 30
- Eastwood – August 29
- Epworth – TBC
- Fakenham – May 23
- Filton – May 30
- Frome – June 6
- Gainsborough – May 2
- Gosforth – July 18
- Halesowen – May 16
- Hampstead – August 15
- Harpenden – July 18
- Henley-On-Thames – August 8
- Hertford – June 20
- Holsworthy – TBC
- Honiton – June 13
- Hornchurch – August 15
- Horsforth – July 18
- Hove – May 23
- Hythe – TBC
- Ilkley – June 13
- Kenilworth – August 1
- Kingswinford – July 11
- Knutsford – June 6
- Launceston – May 2
- Leatherhead – July 4
- Leicester – May 30
- Leighton Buzzard – August 29
- Leominster – April 25
- Lewes – June 27
- Liskeard – May 23
- Long Eaton – July 11
- Market Bosworth – April 25
- Market Harborough – May 30
- Marlow – July 18
- Minehead – May 9
- Morley – August 22
- New Milton – June 27
- North Finchley – August 8
- Norwich – July 25
- Oakham – June 20
- Ormskirk – August 1
- Oxted – TBC
- Palmers Green – July 4
- Penarth – June 13
- Pocklington – June 6
- Pontypool – June 27
- Port Talbot – July 11
- Portadown – June 6
- Portishead – July 4
- Putney – August 1
- Reigate – August 8
- Rhyd-Y-Penau – August 29
- Ripley – July 25
- Ross-On-Wye – June 20
- Ryde – August 22
- Seaford – July 25
- Settle – TBC
- Shaftesbury – April 25
- Skipton – June 13
- Sleaford – June 13
- South Shields – June 13
- Southampton – July 11
- St Austell – April 18
- St Ives – April 18
- St Neots – June 27
- Stamford – May 16
- Stirling – June 6
- Stourport-On-Severn – May 30
- Stroud – May 16
- Sudbury – May 23
- Tenby – TBC
- Tonbridge – July 25
- Twickenham – June 20
- Wadebridge – June 27
- Waltham Cross – May 30
- Wells – June 20
- Westbury-On-Trym – August 1
- Wetherby – July 11
- Whitby – May 16
- Whitley Bay – May 2
- Wilmslow – May 2
- Windsor – August 22
- Wymondham – August 22
Lloyds Bank closures
- Bishop's Waltham – January 24
- Helston – January 24
- Holyhead – January 23
- Lampeter – April 15
- Looe – January 25
- Slaithwaite – January 26
- Wallingford – January 23
- Welshpool – January 26
Nationwide closures
- London (W1H) – February 23
NatWest closures
- Beeston – January 25
- Berkhamstead – January 25
- Bromsgrove – January 31
- Caterham – February 1
- Cheadle – February 2
- Cheltenham – January 26
- Cleethorpes – March 7
- Clitheroe – February 15
- Coventry – January 19
- Devizes – March 8
- Eastleigh – February 16
- Edinburgh – January 24
- Gerrards Cross – February 21
- Glasgow – January 26
- Glossop – March 2
- Headington – February 7
- Henley-on-Thames – February 7
- Ilkley – February 21
- London – January 24
- Oxted – February 22
- Parkstone – March 7
- Potters Bar – February 22
- Sandbach – February 8
- Shipley – February 23
- Southsea – February 23
- St. Neots – February 28
- Stourbridge – February 8
- Thame – March 1
- Tonbridge – March 9
- Uckfield – March 8
- Waterlooville – March 9
- Wetherby – February 9
- Whitehaven – March 14
- Wokingham – February 9
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Santander closures
- Dartford – March 30
- Derby – March 30
- Milton Keynes – June 29
- Milton Keynes – June 29
- Sheffield – March 30
TSB closures
- Kirkwall – May 24
- Aberfeldy – May 16
- Newark – May 9
- Luton – May 30
- Banbury – May 31
- Keynsham – May 2
- Evesham – May 4
- Pollock, Glasgow – May 17
- Pemberton, Wigan – May 11
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