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could anyone point me towards good open water spots in roaches/leek area.
mate at work is keen to try some.

In reply to mark s:

Doxy's Pool is actually mentioned in a friends' wild swimming book...

Given you have to wade through a fair amount of cow-pats to get to it, I can't see why.

In reply to Durbs:

i mentioned doxeys to him but said its no deeper than waist deep.

In reply to mark s:

I guess the obvious places would be Tittesworth or Rudyard but I think swimming is banned at both. There's the pool by the Mermaid but you'd need to be desperate.

In reply to mark s:

Rudyard, there's plenty of reservoirs but its normally banned.. if you stay away from the walls they are normally safe. But some of the reservoirs in the forests should be OK as they'll not be checked as much.

Winsford flash?

When did 'open water' become 'wild' swimming?

In reply to IainRUK:

Most of the 'wild swimming' spots described in books and the like would more accurately be described as wild bathing. Not much swimming to be done.

In reply to ebygomm:

Yeah I've swam a fair few lakes in Snowdonia.. most area pretty shallow. My ex is trying to swim every lake in Snowdonia, some are just belly crawls by the sounds of it…

I enjoy swimming out at sea, and swum in Padarn a fair bit.. which had pollution issues.. but never understood this sudden re-branding..

The best job I ever had was swimming the rivers of Maine in the fall searching for mussels.. I'd spend my days just drifting down wide rivers flowing through new england woodlands just as the foliage turned..

In reply to IainRUK:
When I were a lad "wild swimming" and "open water swimming" were both just called swimming.

No use if actual swimming is the object, but if a quick dip in a river somewhere nice would suffice there are some pretty little pools (Panniers Pool?) by Three Shires Head.
Heck of a lot nicer than wading through the silt at Doxeys anyway. (Cruel suggestion that, might as well send the poor bugger to Lawrencefield.

In reply to mark s:

This is quite a useful site

http://wildswim.com

In reply to mark s:

Can't exactly do lengths but 3 shires head is a lovely spot for a dip

In reply to PTatts:

he is keen to try a dip at 3 shireshead

In reply to mark s:
There's the Cauldon Canal. Bit of a lake at the leek end where the barges turn?

In reply to IainRUK:


When did "swimming" become "wild swimming"?
Almost as irritating as "wild camping".

In reply to Robert Durran:


Which, according to the NT 50 things to do before you're 11 3/4, should take place on a NT Wild Campsite.......

In reply to mark s:

When I take the kids, it tends to be cauldon canal or three shires head. They also tend to swim a lot when they fall off the swing in Dimmingsdale.

In reply to Skol:

That'll be three feet deep with at least a foot of silt at the bottom and the risk of all sorts of stuff having been thrown in there - broken glass mainly I should think.

In reply to Gordonbp:

Correct. With the odd dead dog
We used to cycle to manifold valley and dovedale too, which had some good pools in the river. Risky and very cold. I wouldn't do it now.

In reply to mark s:

Thread hijack:

Amyone else doing the Dart 10K this year?