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OS Open Rivers

Publisher
Ordnance Survey
Updated
23 June 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

OS Open Rivers GIS data contains over 144,000 km of water bodies and watercourses map data. These include freshwater rivers, tidal estuaries and canals. Understand how water bodies and watercourses in Great Britain join up. OS Open Rivers provides a comprehensive datset of Great Britain's River Network, which approximately indicates the central alignment of the watercourse. Inland and tidal rivers are represented by a series of connected link and node features which are assigned with river name and flow direction.

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Data links

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GeoPackage download 23/6/2026
OS Download API 23/6/2026
GML download 23/6/2026
Shapefile download 23/6/2026
OS Open Rivers product description 23/6/2026
OS OpenData downloads OS DataHub 23/6/2026

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
23 June 2026
Harvest GUID
4695c100-c8c7-11e4-8731-1681e6b88ec1
Extent (Latitude)
60.86° to 49.86°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.45° to 1.78°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date (publication)
2015-03-23
Dataset reference date (revision)
2020-10
Frequency of update
biannually
Access constraints
Please acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021
Responsible party
Ordnance Survey (publisher)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng