ENV17 - Bathing water quality: additional datasets
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-25)

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

This data contains compliance information for bathing waters in England.

Site data and summary information for English bathing waters is available from here (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bathing-waters):

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

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National bathing waters in England for 2025: Individual bathing water classifications (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69205a9da0e0fb4c2936ab72/EMBARGOED_EA_National_Bathing_Waters_Classification_Results_2025.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2024: Individual bathing water classifications (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/674059cf02bf39539bdee83d/EMBARGOED_EA_National_Bathing_Waters_Classification_Results_2024.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2023: Individual bathing water classifications (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6565fc5ad6ad75001302fbf2/EMBARGOED_EA_National_Bathing_Waters_Classification_Results_2023.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2022: Individual bathing water classifications (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6385db938fa8f54d64169a86/EMBARGOED_EA_National_Bathing_Waters_Classification_Results_2022.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2021: Classifications summary information (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63779379e90e07284ff0ff09/EMBARGOED_EA_National_BathingWaters_2021_Class_Summary.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2021: Individual bathing water classifications (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/637793b8d3bf7f721413944b/EMBARGOED_EA_National_BathingWaters_2021_Class_Results.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2019 summary and classification (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5dc958d8ed915d4e87d277f8/EMBARGOED_EA_National_BathingWaters_2019_Class_Summary.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2018 classification summary (revised 12 December 2018) (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5c0fb35240f0b60bc4029c27/Copy_of_EA_National_BathingWaters_2018_Class_Summary_V2.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2018 classification results (revised 12 December 2018) (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5c0fb37640f0b60bbee0d786/Copy_of_EA_National_BathingWaters_2018_Class_Results_V2.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2017 classification summary (revised May 2018) (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5ae82871ed915d42f7c6bc6d/EA_National_BathingWaters_2017_Class_Summary_v2.ods)

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National bathing waters in England for 2017 classification results (revised May 2018) (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5ae82895e5274a7024fd6f65/EA_National_BathingWaters_2017_Class_Results_v2.ods)

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England - compliance with the Bathing Water Directive for 2016 (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a816945ed915d74e62321e8/EA_BathingWaters_2016_summaryv2.ods)

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UK - compliance with the (2006/7/EC) Bathing Water Directive for 2015 (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80b0a3ed915d74e622fe2c/Copy_of_2015_cBWD_UK_stats_v1.ods)

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