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Can I swim at Heacham?
King's Lynn and West Norfolk, England · Coastal
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Where it is, and what discharges near it
About this bathing water
- Rating for last season
- Sufficient (2025)
- Water
- Coastal
- Area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk, England
- Monitored outfalls within 5km
- 2 (nearest 2.7km)
- Affected by heavy rain
- Yes, per the regulator
Heacham was rated Sufficient for 2025 — the minimum passing grade in the Bathing Water Regulations. That grade comes from bacterial samples taken over several seasons, so it describes the beach's record rather than the water on any given day.
The Environment Agency issues a pollution risk forecast for this beach every morning during the bathing season, and the water company publishes the status of its storm overflows every few minutes.
The regulator records this as a bathing water whose quality can be affected by heavy rain, which is why rainfall in the last 24 hours is shown above.
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Check the official source
Heacham's official page at the Environment Agency · See it on a map
This page is not official. It reads published data and presents it plainly; if a sign at the beach says otherwise, believe the sign.