Best Places To Wild Swim In The UK: Top Spots For Open Water Swimming
In recent years, wild swimming participation in the UK has seen a massive 84% increase...
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: May 27, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. Where to swim
- 2. Swapping the usual for something cooler in London
- 3. Reset with a slate pool in Pembrokeshire
- 4. Swim beneath the Cairngorms
- 5. Early sun at Ventnor Beach
- 6. Peaceful laps in the Lake District
- 7. Classic spots in Coniston and Derwentwater
- 8. How to swim wild whilst staying safe
- 9. Know where you stand with access
- 10. Don’t assume the water is clean
- 11. Cold water benefits and precautions
- 12. What you should know
