RD 11988-2007Environment Agency: Bathing Water Directive database: Dataset
The Bathing Water Directive database contains details on coastal and inland bathing waters within England and Wales. It holds analysis data (within five microbiological and six physical-chemical parameters) on monitoring samples taken for each site which are then used to classify the bathing waters. The bathing season is from mid-May to end-September in England and Wales, but is shorter in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Bathing waters which are closed for a season are excluded for that year.
Data exists from 1988 onwards. Northern Ireland and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) data is not supplied by the Environment Agency, and is not included within this dataset.