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
Identifier
CEH:EIDC: / 1285344314250
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/7d5e42b6-7729-46c8-99e9-f9e4efddde1d
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Fry, M.
Owner
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Moore, R.V.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morris, D.G.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Flavin, R.W.
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
Maintenance note
In response to any discrepancies that come to light.
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Hydrography
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Controlled
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
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
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
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 Vector
Distance
50  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Inland waters
Begin date
1984-01-01
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Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
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
File identifier
7d5e42b6-7729-46c8-99e9-f9e4efddde1d XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-09-05T11:32:35
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Hydrography

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