River Brit at Beach

EA name: RIVER BRIT AT BEACH (also listed as “RIVER BRIT AT BEACH ROAD BRIDGE ABOVE HARBOUR”)
Environment Agency sampling point SW-50810103 · Freshwater - rivers · listed as closed

These are samples taken on a date, not live readings of the river. Results reach the Environment Agency's archive days to months after the sample is taken, so the newest here may be weeks or months old. FloodRadar does not grade them.

Where and when

Last sampled
25 May 201412.4 years ago, before the imported period. The newest of the 185 samples the Environment Agency's archive lists here, as it listed them on 6 Oct 2026. Nothing was published here 1 Oct 2023 – 8 Oct 2026, the period imported here, so no result is shown below.
Samples banked
None Imported periods: 1 Oct 2023 – 8 Oct 2026. Samples outside them are not shown here.
Where
National Grid 346236, 90496As published, to the nearest 1 m. Open in a map
River, by its own name
Brit
River, by the map
River BritPlaced on the river its name gives, 5 m from the line.
Next gauge downstream
None tracedThe map stops before any gauge.Beside West Bay: too close to say above or below.
Nearest gauge upstream
East Bridge Bridport On the River Asker · 3.6 km along the riverBRIDPORT EAST BRIDGE 3.6 km along the riverBRIDPORT MAGDALEN LANE 3.6 km along the river

Everything measured here

No results were published for this point in the imported periods. That says nothing about the water: it was not sampled then, or its results are not public yet. Its newest sample in the archive, from 25 May 2014, is older than that and is not imported here.

FloodRadar does not grade these results: there is no overall score, and official river classifications are a separate dataset. A sample taken downstream of an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.

Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.