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THOUSANDS of customers who regularly rely on their bank branch will lose out next year as 193 outlets will shut forever.

The closures come as major high street banks opt to transition more of their banking services online.

Data from the UK's largest cash machine network, LINK, keeps track of any planned branch closures across the UK.

HSBC will close 114 branches next year and NatWest will bring down the shutters on 43 branches.

Lloyds Bank will shut 14 outlets and Barclays will close 11 of its branches.

Halifax and Santander will both close five of their branches and Nationwide will close a single branch.

Typically if there are no banks in a town, you should be able to do some basic banking at your local Post Office. 

Many banks also offer a mobile banking service.

This is where your bank brings a bus to your local area that has the services that are usually available at your 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.

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Other banks use buildings such as village halls or libraries to offer mobile banking services.

Here is a full list of the 193 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
  • Birmingham – March 10
  • Bridlington – March 6
  • Dagenham – March 3
  • Ellesmere Port – March 2
  • Liskeard – March 2
  • Sittingbourne – March 8
  • Sleaford – March 8
  • Swansea – March 7
  • Torquay – March 8
  • Weymouth – March 3

Halifax closures

  • Birmingham – January 25
  • Coleraine – January 10
  • Leeds – January 12
  • 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
  • Caldicot – January 16
  • Cheddar – January 9
  • Cinderford – January 9
  • Cleobury Mortimer – January 12
  • Helston – January 24
  • Holyhead – January 23
  • Lampeter – April 15
  • Llandrindod Wells – January 16
  • Looe – January 25
  • Pwllheli – January 12
  • Slaithwaite – January 26
  • Wallingford – January 23
  • Welshpool – January 26

Nationwide closures

  • London (W1H) – February 23

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NatWest closures

  • Aberdeen – January 18
  • Ayr – January 12
  • Beeston – January 25
  • Berkhamstead – January 25
  • Broadstone – January 12
  • Bromsgrove – January 31
  • Buxton – February 14
  • Caterham – February 1
  • Cheadle – February 2
  • Cheltenham – January 26
  • Cleethorpes – March 7
  • Clitheroe – February 15
  • Coventry – January 19
  • Croydon – January 17
  • Devizes – March 8
  • Dundee – January 10
  • 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
  • Lewes – January 11
  • London – January 24
  • London (WC1V) – January 10
  • Market Harborough – January 11
  • 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

Santander closures

  • Dartford – March 30
  • Derby – March 30
  • Milton Keynes – June 29
  • Milton Keynes – June 29
  • Sheffield – March 30

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