Fraisthorpe

11.7°C Water temp · May 5

United Kingdom Coastal 3 - Sufficient 11.7°C

Fraisthorpe Beach is a rural sandy beach situated on the east Yorkshire coast to the south of the resort of Bridlington. It is one kilometre in length with a gentle slope. At low tide a large area of the beach is exposed and the water's edge can be some distance away.

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Water

Coastal bathing water

Location

East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorks

Season

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

Water Quality

Sufficient (2025). Assessed under rBWD

Risks

Bathing water quality may sometimes be affected by storm, emergency and surface water outfalls. Storm overflows may operate during and following periods of heavy rainfall when the sewer system can become overwhelmed by the amount of surface water entering it. The overflows prevent sewage from backing up pipes and flooding properties.

There are no storm overflows discharging directly into the bathing water but there are two storm overflows in the Fraisthorpe catchment. These are downstream of the industrial estate and discharge into Earls Dyke and Auburn beck respectively. There are also several storm overflows to the north in Bridlington South Bay. These include one emergency short sea outfall and 2 long-sea outfalls that discharge into the North Sea.

Yorkshire Water completed improvement schemes at Bridlington and Fraisthorpe to improve bathing water quality in 2014. When these overflows operate, they discharge diluted and screened effluent into the sea and the stream. While the operation of these outfalls can still result in a decline in the bathing water quality, the impacts are likely to be much less than previous years.