• Bait crayfish by the ruins of an old hall in the clear waters of the Cotswold’s Windrush

• Paddle with dinosaurs on the Evenlode, the location of the first ever Jurassic fossil

• A giant amphitheatre of a quarry filled with famously pure Malvern spring water. Admire tectonic faults from over 500 million years ago

• Swim down the River Wye in Herefordshire, one of England’s best-loved swimming and canoeing rivers

• Join the famous coracle regatta at the river-swimming village of Leintwardine

• The famous Grantchester Meadows were a popular river bathing location of Lord Byron, Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolf and members of the Bloomsbury Group

• Dedham Vale, an English landscape lost in time, where Constable painted The Hay Wain and you can still swim in the famous River Stour

• Two Norfolk rivers which flow on to form the ancient Broads, great lakes cut for peat 700 years ago

• Dove Dale is a spectacular limestone gorge with marine fossils from Britain’s time spent under a shallow tropical sea

• Secret mountain-top pools imbued with legends of mermaids and monsters n the Peak District

Wild Swimming Map, Location and Places - and Free Book!

This interactive 'wild swimming' google map allows anyone to add their favourite wild swim places. We're currently updating it with some of the best known rivers and lakes, swims that didn't make it into the Wild Swimming book and new swims as we find them. Add your places here - the best entries each month win a free book!

Help us find more swims in the Birmingham and Midlands region!

Uploading Instructions

You'll need a google account (from gmail, picasa web albums, google checkout etc).  Click on 'view larger map' in the bottom left hand corner which will open up the full UK google map on wild swmiming. Right click your mouse over the map and chose 'add placemark' to add your own favourite location. If you choose 'rich text' (rather than plain text or html) and click the image icon in the editing box, you can add a photo (the photo must be online already. You can copy the link location by right clikcing on the photo and choosing 'copy image location'. Then paste the link address in). If you think your contribution should be considered for a free book then email us to let us know at 'swims at wildswimming.co.uk'