dataset · United Kingdom
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UKCEH digital river network of Great Britain web map service
This is a web map service of the UKCEH digital river network of Great Britain (1:50,000). It is a river centreline network, based originally on OS 1:50,000 mapping. There are four layers: rivers; canals; surface pipes (man-made channels such as aqueducts and leats) and miscellaneous channels (including estuary and lake centre-lines and some underground channels).
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- river centreline network (rivers layer) · canals layer · surface pipes layer (man-made channels such as aqueducts and leats) · miscellaneous channels layer (estuary and lake centre-lines, some underground channels)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1:50,000 scale (based originally on OS 1:50,000 mapping)
- Formats docs-verified
- WMS · JPEG · PNG · TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Web map service (WMS) for use in a GIS application; no authentication listed; Non-Open government licence, licence terms and conditions apply, UKCEH and Ordnance Survey copyright notice required
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- FRA watercourse context: mapping river and canal centrelines near a development site · Drainage outfall screening: locating nearby rivers and surface channels in GIS · Hydrological catchment baseline: overlaying the river network on DEM and catchment layers
- Audience llm-inferred
- GIS analysts · flood consultants · drainage engineers · hydrologists · ecologists
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- 1:50,000 scale is too coarse for site-scale detail · Based on older OS 1:50,000 mapping; record publication date is 2000-12-31 · Documented as a WMS only; no download or vector access is described · Licence terms apply, including citation and copyright notice requirements · No update frequency is stated
- Licence
- Non-Open government licence
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)