Identification

Title

Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

The Environment Agency collects and analyses water samples each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and other activities. This shape file shows the approximate locations of our monitoring sites and the compliance or classification for each bathing water in England from 1988 to present. It is updated twice a year, to revise the inventory, and the assessment results. For coastal waters the specific locations of monitoring vary along a transect with the changing of the tides. The results of these samples are assessed in annual classifications and are available to view and download through the bathing water data explorer. This data is covered by AfA470. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-FGDB.zip

protocol: http

name: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-FGDB.zip

description: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-FGDB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-GeoJSON.zip

protocol: http

name: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-GeoJSON.zip

description: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-GeoJSON.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-GML.zip

protocol: http

name: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-GML.zip

description: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-GML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-KML.zip

protocol: http

name: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-KML.zip

description: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-KML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-MID_MIF.zip

protocol: http

name: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-MID_MIF.zip

description: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-MID_MIF.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-SHP.zip

protocol: http

name: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-SHP.zip

description: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-SHP.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-TAB.zip

protocol: http

name: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-TAB.zip

description: BathingWatersMonitoringLocations-TAB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=0cf145dd-4cb3-48b2-8ae4-fa5390b90431&fileName=Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations.lyr

protocol: http

name: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations.lyr

description: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/fb8da72f-4938-4100-ac91-d9b8438ffd4c?download=true

protocol: http

name:

description: Download data by area of interest

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/bathing-waters-monitoring-locations/wms

protocol: http

name: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations_WMS

description: Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/bathing-waters-monitoring-locations/wfs

protocol: http

name: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations_WFS

description: Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations WFS

Unique resource identifier

code

e0c64fdb-2502-4efd-b98b-243f70d8e53e

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

beach

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water monitoring

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

surface water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water quality

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

tidal water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water pollution

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

bathing freshwater

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

bathing water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

bathing seawater

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

recreation

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

brackish water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

protected area

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1988-01-01

End position

2023-08-11

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2010-10-01

date type

revision

effective date

2023-12-01

Frequency of update

biannually

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Environment Agency collects and analyses water samples each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and other activities. The results of these samples are assessed in annual classifications. Bathing water locations, and samples & measurements are archived on the Environment Agency’s water quality archive WIMS. The compliance and classification results are held in bwdata.mdb which is managed by Statutory Assessment & Reporting in RAE. All the data is also available as linked open data via the linked data store or bathing water data explorer. The assessments used in the compliance from 1988 to 2014 were based on the standards as set in the directive 76/160/EEC. From 2015 onwards the assessments are based on the standards set in the directive 2006/7/EC. This shape file shows the approximate locations of our monitoring sites and the compliance or classification for each bathing water in England from 1988 to present. It is updated twice a year, to revise the inventory, and the assessment results. For coastal waters the specific locations of monitoring vary along a transect line with the changing of the tides.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://environment.data.gov.uk/support

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-12-08

Metadata language