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Rivers

OS Open Rivers

Ordnance Survey open river network for Great Britain. Connected river network with names and flow direction.

A generalised, connected network of watercourses with names and flow direction, designed for routing and for linking to other water data.

Source
Ordnance Survey
Resolution
Generalised from OS MasterMap Water Network
Data type
Lines and nodes
Time span
Updated twice a year
Temporal
Semi-annual
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML
Coverage
Great Britain (-8.70, 49.80, 1.80, 60.90)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Provider page
osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenRivers

Access

filesOS Open Rivers downloads (OS Data Hub)

curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/os-open-rivers/links.txt?bbox=-4.45,54.35,-2.45,56.35" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record