Wild Swimming News

The Manchester Evening News reports: Kids can once again join in FREE open water swim safety sessions at Salford Quays this summer....

Readers Digest reports: There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned swimming hole to beat the heat this summer. Here’s where to find the...

Lewisham’s largest green space, Beckenham Place Park, has been awarded £440,000 from Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London. The award is part of...

The Bulletin reports: Wild and wet: Where to find the best natural swimming spots in Belgium. Fans of wild swimming need to head out of...

The Guardian reports: You think it’s cold out? Try going to Tampere, Finland, where temperatures can hit -25C in winter (-5C is...

The Outdoor Swimming Society has become the public face of outdoor swimming, working to promote positive attitudes and encourage...

The London Evening Standard Reports: “Floating exhibition displays artworks in middle of swimming pond on Hampstead Heath.” “Seeing the...

Certainly not the idea, the Health and safety ethos protects us from many unnecessary risks; it has saved lives and prevented countless...

Outdoor swimming is something of a culture shock to many of the British population. We as a nation have become so used to swimming...

Improbable you may think – but actually it’s true! On our recent visit to Switzerland, my wife and I just managed to squeeze in a visit...

From a modern perspective, swimming was a very British sport. After years or religious and superstitious suppression it was in Britain...

These pictures of Bains Des Paquis (Geneva, Switzerland) remind me of so many photographs of our great British swimming past. The...

Wild Swimming in the Serpentine The Wall Street Journal reports: LONDON—This is Emily Chong’s routine, rain or shine, winter or summer:...

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I had the pleasure of being invited into Radio Leicester this morning to discuss the opening of the bathing beach at Rutland water. To...

As the school holidays approach warnings about summer swimming are surfacing again. But the news is not all bad, negative attitudes are...

Rutland Water Bathing Beach will be open for SWIMMING tomorrow! Set on a grassy bank, surrounded by woodland, this carefully chosen...

National Geographic ran an article with photographs by Daniel Hjorth capturing the essence of ice swimming in the faces of children as...

For now, Rutland Water Bathing Beach is just a building site, and at first glance it might seem that little is going on. Set on a grassy...

Private education at either Eton or Harrow would have seemed remiss if it were not for an extensive swimming curriculum. Ducker, built in...