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Spatial inventory of UK waterbodies

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The dataset is the lake polygons from the UK Lakes Portal (https://uklakes.ceh.ac.uk/), originally based on OS PANORAMA but this dataset includes data from a number of sources. It has a basic set of attributes including the water body ID (WBID) as well as the computed area and perimeter of each lake. The WBID is commonly used across research institutions and is the same ID as used on the UK Lakes Portal, where more information can be found on each lake in this dataset. This is v3.6, which follows the same versioning as the underlying database. Although the database has seen the majority of the changes since version 1, the polygons have also been changed and improved over that time, mostly fixing issues with lake outlines, but also some new sites being added. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b6b92ce3-dcd7-4f0b-8e43-e937ddf1d4eb

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
b6b92ce3-dcd7-4f0b-8e43-e937ddf1d4eb
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2021-11-23
Dataset reference date (creation)
2021-11-22
Access constraints
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Ordnance Survey (owner)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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