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Wild Swimming - exploring Britain's rivers, lakes and
waterfalls On a hot summer day, what could be more refreshing than slipping into the cool, clear waters of a secret lake? And what could be more exciting than plunging into a hidden waterfall? Britain’s freshwater rivers, lakes and waterfalls are cleaner, safer and more accessible than at any time in living memory and the health benefits of a wild swim or natural dip are also now well known. Wild Swimming.co.uk is here to help you enjoy a summer of picnics and splash-abouts in some of Britain most watery and hidden beauty spots. To start with why not check out our new best-selling photo-guide book. NEWS AND LATEST POSTS The Big Jump! 2pm Sunday 6th July  It’ll soon be the European Rivers Network annual river swimming day. “Everybody will swim in the rivers the same day, at the same hour, in all the European rivers, from the sources and the glaciers to the oceans”. It's all in aid of raising awareness about river water quality. We will be up Why not find out more about the work of UK environmental organisations working to keep our freshwaters fresh? www.wwf.org.uk/freshwater and the Blueprint for Water coalition www.blueprintforwater.org.uk Wild Swimming on the Radio. Daniel Start joined John McCarthy on Radio Four's Excess Baggage to talk about the wild places of Brit  ain for an outdoor swim. You can also hear more about wild swimming on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire and BBC Herefordshire and Worcestershire. You'll find an interview with BBC Radio Scotland 'Highlands and Islands' here. Updated 16th June 2008Over the last two months wild swimming has featured in the Telegraph and as the cover story in the Sunday Times. Read about the top places to swim and why outdoor swimming is great for all the family. Skinny dipping at one of our suggested wild swim spots - Galleny Falls - was also nominated as one of the 100 most romantic things to do in the Guardian. More in the Scotsman too. Posted 15th May 2008  New Outdoor Swim Google Map! We’ve laboured away and loaded up a range of additional wild swims into the nice maps from Google. You can find them here. We've added a little selection from the Wild Swimming book but it’s mainly a place for
new outdoor swims. Please consider becoming a 'collaborator'
(!) on Google maps and uploading your own favourite places with photos so we can help grow this collection.
Alternatively email us at swims AT wildswimming.co.uk and we’ll upload
them for you. 
Comedian Dom Joly and 25 nutty wild swimmers joined us in tropical
tornado conditions to swim in the River Wye on Monday 26th May. Dom's
wild swim sketch was screened on the 'Hay-on-Sky' TV show. Despite the rain
there was great elation and euphoria. The Hay Literary Festival is the largest literary festival in the world and earlier that morning Daniel Start spoke
about ’Wild Swimming’ on Start the Day at the Guardian stage (together with Harry Bingham on ‘This
Little Britain’ and Tim Fitzhigham who rowed across the channel in a
bath). You can download a
brochure for the continuing 9-day event here. For more on Hay Warren and the long tradition of wild swimming at Hay see the Upper Wye chapter from the book. Updated 28th May 2008. What, another book? 'Wild Swim' by Kate Rew and Guardian publishers - just out. Wild
Swim by Kate Rew and Guardian publishing follows rapidly in our
wet footsteps. This has good coverage of outdoor swimming pools
and sea swims, making this a great complement to our own Wild Swimming
book (dedicated to rivers, lakes and waterfalls...) This is a
hardback coffee-table book with
atmospheric photos of moody watery expanses (so don't expect quite
so much in the way of handy grid refs and regional
maps). This book will appeal
to anyone who loves a wild place, as well as to the hardier swimmer or
triathlete who enjoys a longer swim. Updated 28th May 2008 |
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