England designation register
The reviewed place set is checked against the current GOV.UK list of designated bathing waters in England. The register is used to confirm that a name remains designated; it does not supply live conditions or permission to enter.
Check the current designation register ↗
Environment Agency bathing-water profiles
Each place check links an exact EUBWID to its Environment Agency profile. The profile is the primary verification source for annual classification, sampling and pollution-risk information. An annual classification does not describe every hour or every entry point.
Bathing Water Quality API and profiles ↗
Why nearest WIMS and aggregate overflow fields are not displayed
Earlier prototypes used a third-party aggregate endpoint to find the nearest WIMS sample and overflow records. Independent checks found that the nearest sample could be many years old or unrelated to the exact designated profile. Commercial reuse and cache terms for the derived API were also not explicit enough for this release. Those fields have therefore been removed rather than presented with a warning beside unreliable values.
Environment Agency flood-monitoring API
River files may request stations within 25 kilometres and present the nearest returned measured station. Station, catchment, parameter, unit, distance and reading time remain visible. The hydraulic relationship to the bathing reach is not verified, so this is a research prompt—not the level at the entry point. The gauge request is not made for coast or lake files.
Environment Agency licensing and attribution
Environment Agency information is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. It contains public sector information licensed under the OGL v3.0 and, where stated by the source, Environment Agency or Crown copyright and database rights. Source links remain attached so users can inspect the current official record.
Read the Open Government Licence v3.0 ↗
Open-Meteo
Open-Meteo supplies current modelled air temperature, apparent temperature, precipitation, wind speed, gust and direction at the official profile coordinate. No value is presented as water temperature, observed catchment rainfall, tide or wave state.
Freshness rules for connected context
Weather must carry a parseable timestamp no more than three hours old. Gauge readings must carry a parseable timestamp no more than six hours old. Either source is rejected if its time is more than fifteen minutes in the future. Rejected or stale observations cannot make a response complete and are not stored in the five-minute upstream cache.
Editorial place register
Exact official identities, evidence questions, source boundaries and unverified check prompts are maintained by Wild Water Desk. Every indexed place file also carries a dated, linked operational source note that states what that second source establishes, how it changes the local check and what remains unresolved. The attached verification sequence is written for that exact place rather than generated by substituting a place name.
Each prompt is assigned an explicit verification policy. Water movement, longshore drift, submerged debris and submerged obstacles require current source or qualified local evidence and are never treated as absent because they are not visible. Access, patrol zones, exits and directly observable conditions use different policies. These prompts are not first-hand access verification, confirmed local hazard statements or a claim that a swim occurred.
Coverage gaps
The register is a small England-only reviewed set, not a UK inventory. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland use different official systems. Tides, wave models, water temperature, rescue coverage, live flags, legal access and verified gauge-to-reach relationships are not connected. Failures remain unavailable rather than being filled with examples.