Worst beaches for sewage in North Devon
5 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2025. The other 4 in North Devon have no comparable 2025 record, which is not the same as a clean one.
Spills in 2025
- 1 Lynmouth 89 from 5 overflows +24% since 2022
- 2 Combe Martin 54 from 3 overflows +6% since 2022
- 3 Woolacombe Village 49 from 1 overflow +69% since 2022
- 4 Ilfracombe Hele 28 from 1 overflow -18% since 2022
- 5 Croyde Bay 9 from 1 overflow +125% since 2022
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 North Devon or every spill happening now.