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National River Flow Archive (NRFA)

Publisher
Natural Resources Wales
Updated
16 September 2026
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Summary

The National River Flow Archive (NRFA) is the UK's focal point for river flow data and is the primary archive of daily and peak river flows for the United Kingdom. The archive incorporates daily, monthly and flood peak data from over 1500 gauging stations across the UK.

The NRFA holds a wide range of hydrological information to assist in the understanding and interpretation of measured river flows. In addition to time series of gauged river flow, the data centre maintains hydrometric information relating to the gauging stations and the catchments they command and data, quantifying other parts of the hydrological cycle.

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
15 May 2025
Harvest GUID
NRW_DS116303
Extent (Latitude)
53.513067° to 51.240829°
Extent (Longitude)
-5.777741° to -2.608865°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2016-10-31
Frequency of update
annually
Access constraints
This data is jointly owned by NRW, the Environment Agency (England), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Rivers Agency (Northern Ireland). There are third party use restrictions on this data.
Responsible party
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (owner, custodian, originator); Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) (distributor)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng