HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080385620

Bassin de River Windrush

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 2 administrative regions : NA

7% lakePfafstetter: 23303898

Sub-basin area

369km²

Upstream area

369km²

Discharge

2,98m³/s

Mean elev.

175m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de River Thames74 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

NA
NA · United Kingdom
251.3 km²
67.8% of basin
NA
England · United Kingdom
119.1 km²
32.2% of basin

17 intersecting protected areas

Cotswolds
IUCN V
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
310.82 km² overlap
Sherborne Park
IUCN V
Nature Reserve
1.32 km² overlap
Taynton Quarries
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.40 km² overlap
Hornsleasow Roughs
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.29 km² overlap
Brassey Reserve and Windrush Valley
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.18 km² overlap
Salmonsbury Meadows
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.18 km² overlap
Bourton Down
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.11 km² overlap
Barton Bushes
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.06 km² overlap
Ducklington Mead
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.05 km² overlap

8 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Hornsleasow Quarry
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.04 km² overlap
Harford Railway Cutting
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.02 km² overlap
Notgrove Railway Cutting
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.02 km² overlap
Huntsman's Quarry
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.02 km² overlap
Hampen Railway Cutting
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.01 km² overlap
Lark Wood
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.01 km² overlap
Wychwood
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.01 km² overlap
New Park Quarry
IUCN IV
Site of Special Scientific Interest
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 236 distinct species · 178 494 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 27 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de River Windrush : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 134 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 30.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

134

Connectance

0.308

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

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

677mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,01

Runoff

318mm/an

PET

668mm

AET

510mm

Mean slope

2,6°

Water table

191cm

Forest

Crops

65%

Urban

Protected

84%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)