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Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Catchments

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This dataset is part of Integrated Hydrological Units (IHU) of the UK, a set of geographical reference units for hydrological purposes including river flow measurement and hydrometric data collection. This dataset was derived from the Integrated Hydrological Terrain Model. A Catchment represents the full area upstream from a Section outlet, which is a cell upstream of a confluence of two watercourses with known names. While Sections do not overlap, Catchments can overlap because one Catchment contains Catchments for all upstream Sections. This layer currently covers Great Britain only as no dataset with river geometries and names with suitable detail is available for Northern Ireland. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/10d419c8-8f65-4b85-a78a-3d6e0485fa1f

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
10d419c8-8f65-4b85-a78a-3d6e0485fa1f
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2015-02-05
Dataset reference date (creation)
2014-08-20
Frequency of update
irregular
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Kral, F., Fry, M., Dixon, H. (2015). Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom: Catchments. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/10d419c8-8f65-4b85-a78a-3d6e0485fa1f
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng