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ENV17 - Bathing water quality: additional datasets

A summary of compliance with the (2006/7/EC) Bathing Water Directive.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published:
26 November 2012
Last updated:
25 November 2025
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  1. Annual update.

  2. Annual update.

  3. 2023 bathing water data published.

  4. Latest data for 2022 added.

  5. File formats for current release changed from Excel to ODS.

  6. Figures for 2021 published.

  7. 2019 datasets published

  8. Datasets revised due to change in classification of Southend Three Shells

  9. 2018 figures published

  10. Dataset revised to reflect changes to classification

  11. Annual update.

  12. Annual update to publication.

  13. UK compliance with the 2006 Bathing Water Directive published.

  14. New bathing water figures published.

  15. 2013 figures

  16. First published.

This data contains compliance information for bathing waters in England.

Site data and summary information for English bathing waters is available from here:

These tables show compliance with the Bathing Water Directive for bathing waters in England from 2017. The previous tables show compliance across the UK.

National bathing waters in England for 2025: Individual bathing water classifications

ODS, 38.4 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

National bathing waters in England for 2024: Individual bathing water classifications

ODS, 45.6 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

National bathing waters in England for 2023: Individual bathing water classifications

ODS, 36.5 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

National bathing waters in England for 2022: Individual bathing water classifications

ODS, 1.34 MB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

National bathing waters in England for 2021: Classifications summary information

ODS, 8.57 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

National bathing waters in England for 2021: Individual bathing water classifications

ODS, 12.9 KB

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National bathing waters in England for 2019 summary and classification

ODS, 16.4 KB

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National bathing waters in England for 2018 classification summary (revised 12 December 2018)

ODS, 8.02 KB

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National bathing waters in England for 2018 classification results (revised 12 December 2018)

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National bathing waters in England for 2017 classification summary (revised May 2018)

ODS, 7.88 KB

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National bathing waters in England for 2017 classification results (revised May 2018)

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England - compliance with the Bathing Water Directive for 2016

ODS, 27 KB

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UK - compliance with the (2006/7/EC) Bathing Water Directive for 2015

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If you require the data in another format such as Excel please contact: FandWStatistics@defra.gov.uk

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