UKCEH digital river network of Great Britain (1:50,000)
This dataset comprises river centrelines, digitised from OS 1:50,000 mapping. It consists of four components: rivers; canals; surface pipes (man-made channels for transporting water such as aqueducts and leats); and miscellaneous channels (including estuary and lake centre-lines and some underground channels). This dataset is a representation of the river network in Great Britain as a set of line segments, i.e. it does not comprise a geometric network.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2000-12-31
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1285344314250
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/7d5e42b6-7729-46c8-99e9-f9e4efddde1d
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Fry, M.
Point of contact Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Moore, R.V.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Morris, D.G.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Flavin, R.W.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
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In response to any discrepancies that come to light.
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Hydrography
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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Water
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
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Controlled
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Bespoke licensing conditions apply to these data. If you choose to download the data, the CEH Data Licensing team will contact you to negotiate a licence
- Use constraints
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This dataset consists of a series of digitised lines representing waterways in GB. This dataset may be used for mapping of rivers and streams but it is NOT a geometric network and therefore should not be used for applications that require network connectivity.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 50 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Inland waters
- Begin date
- 1984-01-01
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Distribution format
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Name Version Shapefile
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/DPD8XQ8G/order Download the data
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/7d5e42b6-7729-46c8-99e9-f9e4efddde1d.zip Supporting documentation
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/a78c90a2-8da4-4f0a-9c6a-c1d1a4a3c2b0?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS Web Map Service
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- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The dataset was produced within a long-term project of the Institute of Hydrology (now CEH) between the mid-1970s and the late 1990s. The project digitised, (either manually or using 'laser scanners') the "blue line" layer of the Ordnance Survey's 1:50,000 2nd series (Landranger) maps. The dataset consists of all the single blue lines from the source maps, plus centre-lines from double sided rivers, lakes and estuaries. All gaps in the source material have been closed, using local knowledge where necessary, to give a river network that is continuous from source to mouth
Metadata
- File identifier
- 7d5e42b6-7729-46c8-99e9-f9e4efddde1d XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-04-22T13:52:05
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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