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The Telegraph reports: It was Sept 6 1988 and he was 11 years and 336 days old, the youngest person to ever swim the English Channel....

Malcolm Tozer Reviews: Hung Out to Dry: Swimming and British Culture, in the Spring Edition of Physical Education Matters. It was by...

Outdoor Swimming was at one time encouraged as healthy and essential exercise. Well managed and incredibly popular bathing stations like...

“Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won’t drown” These famous words taken from Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons fit well...

Specific river bathing areas became necessary when Matthew Webb opened the floodgates to outdoor swimming by conquering the Channel in...

On Sunday Sean Conway took to the waters of Lands End to begin his attempt to become the first person to swim the length of Britain. His...

David Cameron speaking in 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Guardian today featured this article on Wild Swimmers: In taking an...

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Revision 2012 – enhanced photographs, text updated throughout. Swim in the great outdoors and experience the cool refreshing waters of...

This remarkable woman became famous through her attempts to swim the Channel. Shirley’s story as reported in The Telegraph describes her...