UKCEH digital river network of Great Britain (1:50,000)
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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.
Publication date: 2000-12-31
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Format
ESRI Shapefile
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Vector
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
Temporal extent
1984-01-01 to …
Provenance & quality
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
Licensing and 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
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.
Related
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Services associated with this dataset
UKCEH digital river network of Great Britain web map service
Correspondence/contact details
Matt Fry
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
Moore, R.V.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Morris, D.G.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Flavin, R.W.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Other contacts
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
info@eidc.ac.uk
Originator
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
enquiries@ceh.ac.uk