• Magnificent Wastwater: England’s deepest, most dramatic and most beautiful lake. It also has an underwater ‘gnome garden’

• Eskdale: a magical series of pools leading up to Scafell Pike. There’s nowhere better to be on a hot day in the Lakes

• William Wordsworth’s mountain waterfall pools along Rydal Beck with view across Rydal Water

• Swim across to Wildcat Island of Swallows and Amazons fame

• Ulpha Bridge: a fabulous family picnicking place from where you can watch the brave bridge jumpers

• Hell Gill is thought to be a collapsed cave, now a semi-underground stream that feels like the inside of a whale. Descend if you dare!

• Swaledale: Remote and wild: this is real Yorkshire Dales waterfall country – perfect for swimming

• Near Grassington on Wharfedale: A gentle cataract great for ‘tubing’ – rafting the rapids on rubber rings

• With two pubs, a river campsite and a tiny island, Appletreewick is an idyllic wild-swimming village

• Set next to the ruins of Bolton Priory, this stretch of river becomes Costa-del- Bolton on hot summer days

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 !

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).