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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Swim off Dungeness. You leave with a nice healthy glow.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
[QUOTE 5305407, member: 21629"]Personal experience? 
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You could say that...
[/QUOTE]You could say that...
HertzvanRental
Veteran
A fair few all year swimmers at Tankerton.
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
You were the kid in that Ready Brek ad then?
DanZac
Senior Member
- Location
- Basingstoke
The RNLI website tells you which beaches have got lifeguards.
Find the one nearest you and away you go!
https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/li...972736790834&lon=0.8853260673952263&radius=78
Find the one nearest you and away you go!
https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/li...972736790834&lon=0.8853260673952263&radius=78
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
Anything on wild swimming?
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
It's maybe not the kind of thing you're looking for OMG but I'd steer clear of pits or lakes unless they're used for sports...we just had a poor 20 year old Lithuanian guy drown in one local to us. These kind of waters are scary to me.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Some Tri clubs may do some wild water swimming.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Not exactly “wild” but Leybourne Lakes near Maidstone have open water swimming.
jefmcg
Guru
I'm a little confused. Isn't Kent on the coast? Finding somewhere to swim seems easy.
At random Sandgate Esplanade
At random Sandgate Esplanade
Stephen Piper
Veteran
- Location
- Romney Marsh, Kent
Coast line near to you with free parking: Littlestone (New Romney, near the brick built water tower)
Fisherman's Beach, Hythe (parking meters along Princes Parade).
Sandgate.
Best to go over the high tide +/- 2 hours to avoid a variety of mud, rocks and very shallow water.
Most of the fresh water in the area is not free flowing so is not safe to swim in due to weil's disease and other nasties.
Fisherman's Beach, Hythe (parking meters along Princes Parade).
Sandgate.
Best to go over the high tide +/- 2 hours to avoid a variety of mud, rocks and very shallow water.
Most of the fresh water in the area is not free flowing so is not safe to swim in due to weil's disease and other nasties.
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smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
[QUOTE 5305834, member: 21629"]I doubt if I could do the same in the middle of London in Thames.[/quote]
Not so long ago, it would have been a serious health risk. But they’ve cleaned it up in recent years and now lots of people do swim in it, eg at Gabriel’s Wharf on the South Bank.
[ETA: just checked this and apparently you need permission from the PLA to swim in the Thames between Putney and Crossness. Maybe it’s paddling only at Gabriel’s Wharf.]
Cycling on a UK motorway would be an exceptionally stupid thing to do. Unless you’re suicidal.
Probably because it’s a privately owned fishing lake.
Not so long ago, it would have been a serious health risk. But they’ve cleaned it up in recent years and now lots of people do swim in it, eg at Gabriel’s Wharf on the South Bank.
[ETA: just checked this and apparently you need permission from the PLA to swim in the Thames between Putney and Crossness. Maybe it’s paddling only at Gabriel’s Wharf.]
Cycling on a UK motorway would be an exceptionally stupid thing to do. Unless you’re suicidal.
Probably because it’s a privately owned fishing lake.
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jefmcg
Guru
[QUOTE 5305834, member: 21629"]That's why I'm asking.[/QUOTE]
I am pretty sure the sea is almost always OK. While there might be few beaches which have signs banning swimming I've never seen one.
I personally wouldn't advise swimming in the Thames downstream of Richmond
I am pretty sure the sea is almost always OK. While there might be few beaches which have signs banning swimming I've never seen one.
I personally wouldn't advise swimming in the Thames downstream of Richmond
