Worst beaches for sewage in Folkestone and Hythe
5 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2025. The other 2 in Folkestone and Hythe have no comparable 2025 record, which is not the same as a clean one.
Spills in 2025
- 1 Sandgate Granville Parade 105 from 4 overflows -26% since 2023
- 2 Hythe 104 from 3 overflows -21% since 2023
- 3 Folkestone 43 from 3 overflows -32% since 2023
- 4 Littlestone 2 from 2 overflows -96% since 2023
- 5 St Mary's Bay (Kent) 2 from 2 overflows -96% since 2023
How this is counted
Each figure counts spills from the storm overflows the Environment Agency links to that bathing water in its annual Event Duration Monitoring return, so it follows the sewer network rather than a map radius. Spills only: the return's duration column is not reliable enough to publish.
See the cleanest beaches in Folkestone and Hythe or every spill happening now.