UKCEH digital river network of Great Britain (1:50,000)

Name: UKCEH digital river network of Great Britain (1:50,000)
Published: 2000-12-31

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

These data are held and managed by the Environmental Information Data Centre

For more details and to access the data, go to https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/7d5e42b6-7729-46c8-99e9-f9e4efddde1d

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

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

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

Additional metadata

Topic categories: inlandWaters
INSPIRE theme: Hydrography
Keywords: Geospatial / Map , hydrography , hydrology , National , river , River Flow and Networks , Water , watercourse
Last updated: 14 March 2024 15:54