Identification

Title

WFD River Basin Districts Cycle 2

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

WFD River Basin Districts is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 2 of the WFD defines them as '…the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters…'. River Basin Districts have been delineated by using River Catchments as “building blocks” that have been aggregated together within a GIS, ensuring that WFD rivers do not intersect boundaries. Coastal and transitional waterbodies are also merged and assigned to a river basin district. River Catchments were delineated through use of flow data and a digital terrain model run through a hydrological model. These data apply to Cycle 2 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 1 is covered by AfA081. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-FGDB.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-FGDB.zip

description: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-FGDB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GeoJSON.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GeoJSON.zip

description: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GeoJSON.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GML.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GML.zip

description: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-KML.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-KML.zip

description: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-KML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-MID_MIF.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-MID_MIF.zip

description: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-MID_MIF.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-SHP.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-SHP.zip

description: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-SHP.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-TAB.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-TAB.zip

description: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-TAB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.gdb.zip

protocol: http

name: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.gdb.zip

description: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.gdb.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.geojson.zip

protocol: http

name: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.geojson.zip

description: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.geojson.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.gpkg.zip

protocol: http

name: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.gpkg.zip

description: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.gpkg.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d016c448-db3a-4bd7-9d57-bfb64fa4cd1b&fileName=WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.shp.zip

protocol: http

name: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.shp.zip

description: WFD_River_Basin_Districts_Cycle_2.shp.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/77bd5640-d465-11e4-bbc2-f0def148f590?download=true

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2_Download

description: Download data by area of interest

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-basin-districts-cycle-2/wms

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2_WMS

description: WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 2 WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-basin-districts-cycle-2/wfs

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2_WFS

description: WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 2 WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-basin-districts-cycle-2/ogc/features/v1

protocol: http

name: OGC API - Features service

description: OGC API - Features service

Unique resource identifier

code

77bd5640-d465-11e4-bbc2-f0def148f590

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

inlandWaters

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

ground water

environment

inlandWaters

oceans

Keyword set

keyword value

coastal water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

hydrology

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-01-01

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-30

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Cycle 2 RBD boundaries look very similar to the cycle 1 RBD boundaries but are based on the Cycle 2 versions of the river waterbody catchments, transitional and coastal waters. As a result some of the base datasets used for their delineation have changes and they have been declared OpenData.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

Not Applicable

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://environment.data.gov.uk/support

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-05-19

Metadata language