Dawlish Town

17.5°C Water temp · Sep 17

United Kingdom Coastal 2 - Good 17.5°C

Satellite view of Dawlish Town — Satellite © Esri

Dawlish Town is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 650 metres wide, close to the town and cliffs.

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Water

Coastal bathing water

Location

Teignbridge, Devon, Teignbridge District

Season

Designated bathing water since 1988. Official monitoring season runs from May to September.

Water Quality

Good (2025). Assessed under rBWD

Risks

There is an emergency overflow from the Dawlish (Royal Hotel) pumping station that discharges to Dawlish Water at the beach 260m from the Environment Agency monitoring point.
There is a storm overflow from Sea Lawns that discharges to the sea 350m northeast of the Environment Agency monitoring point. There is a storm overflow from the Viaduct High Level Storm Tank that discharges to Dawlish Water 200m upstream from the beach.
There is a storm overflow at the Dawlish Breakwater that discharges to the sea 300m from the Environment Agency monitoring point. There is a storm overflow from Barton Hill/Brunswick Place that discharges to Dawlish Water 650m upstream from the beach.
The operation of the overflows can lead to a temporary drop in bathing water quality.
In 2022 SWW completed work on Brook St Manor Gardens storm overflow to target an improved performance of 2 significant spills per bathing season on average. To reduce flow volumes in sewers a new storm storage tank was constructed along with new surface water sewers in the area to take rainfall from highways directly into the watercourse. .