HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080373340
Bassin de River Severn
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 9 administrative regions : Herefordshire, County of, NA, Telford and Wrekin, Wolverhampton
Sub-basin area
1 620,3km²
Upstream area
5 046,1km²
Discharge
107,66m³/s
Mean elev.
112m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Tern875 km²
- Bassin de River Severn608 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NAEngland · United Kingdom759.6 km²46.7% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom541.4 km²33.3% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom174.5 km²10.7% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom70.0 km²4.3% of basin
- Telford and WrekinEngland · United Kingdom46.7 km²2.9% of basin
- WolverhamptonEngland · United Kingdom16.7 km²1.0% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom16.7 km²1.0% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom1.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Herefordshire, County of0.0 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Shropshire Hills
IUCN VArea of Outstanding Natural Beauty
87.43 km² overlap
Wyre Forest
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
17.39 km² overlap
Wyre Forest
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
14.57 km² overlap
Long Mynd
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
7.90 km² overlap
Long Mynd
IUCN VNature Reserve
7.86 km² overlap
Dudmaston
IUCN VNature Reserve
3.27 km² overlap
Feckenham Forest
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
2.30 km² overlap
Wenlock Edge
IUCN VNature Reserve
2.30 km² overlap
Clent Hills
IUCN VNature Reserve
1.47 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Tick Wood and Benthall Edge
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.45 km² overlap
Wenlock Edge
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.39 km² overlap
Kinver Edge
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.24 km² overlap
Kinver Edge
IUCN VNature Reserve
1.22 km² overlap
Highgate
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
1.16 km² overlap
Attingham Park
IUCN VNature Reserve
1.06 km² overlap
Shrawley Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.02 km² overlap
Bush Wood and High Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.00 km² overlap
Devil's Spittleful
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.99 km² overlap
Highgate Common
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.95 km² overlap
Telford Town Park
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.92 km² overlap
Local Nature Reserve
0.91 km² overlap
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.90 km² overlap
Saltwells
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.89 km² overlap
Kingsford Forest Park
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.81 km² overlap
The Wrekin & The Ercall
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.78 km² overlap
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.74 km² overlap
Attingham Park
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.68 km² overlap
Areley Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.64 km² overlap
The Leasowes
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.64 km² overlap
Buckpool and Fens Pool
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 836 distinct species · 1 920 689 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de River Severn : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 19.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
9,0°C
Annual rain
702mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
466mm/an
PET
647mm
AET
508mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
161cm
Forest
0%
Crops
45%
Urban
20%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)