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Worst beaches for sewage in Northumberland

11 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2025. The other 3 in Northumberland have no comparable 2025 record, which is not the same as a clean one.

Spills in 2025

  1. 1 Spittal 509 from 28 overflows -21% since 2021
  2. 2 Newbiggin North 153 from 3 overflows +13% since 2021
  3. 3 Newbiggin South 153 from 3 overflows +13% since 2021
  4. 4 Druridge Bay North 65 from 2 overflows -54% since 2021
  5. 5 Amble Links 62 from 7 overflows -56% since 2021
  6. 6 Warkworth 62 from 7 overflows -56% since 2021
  7. 7 Seahouses North 55 from 4 overflows +28% since 2022
  8. 8 Blyth South Beach 54 from 4 overflows -11% since 2022
  9. 9 Seaton Sluice 26 from 4 overflows -54% since 2023
  10. 10 Beadnell 23 from 2 overflows -62% since 2021
  11. 11 Bamburgh Castle 3 from 1 overflow -70% since 2021

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 Northumberland or every spill happening now.