• The Nadder, Wylye and Wiltshire Avon pools beneath small chutes in the streams that drain Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge

• White shingle beach and dancing water buttercups line the crystal-clear Test chalk stream that drains Hampshire’s Watership Down

• ‘Lost’ river meanders make perfect lakes in the spectacular Cuckmere Haven

• Hire rowboats from a pub and swim along two miles of Sussex’s most remote and rural river – the Ouse

• A popular inland beach, set in ancient Surrey heathland, built by the Bishop of Winchester in the sixteenth century

• Hampstead Ponds, Britain’s oldest and most famous bathing ponds, these pools were constructed 400 years ago to provide London with drinking water through hollowed-out elm tree pipes

• Find this pretty village just off the M25 / M2 where children play in the ford

• In the centre of Oxford, not far from the station, the riverside at Port Meadow inspired Lewis Carroll in the opening of Alice in Wonderland

• The beautiful stretches of the River Thames that provided the setting for Three Men in a Boat and Wind in the Willows

• Cheese Wharf, a deep bend in the young River Thames, great for swimming and once the location for barges loaded with Gloucestershire cheese

• A beautiful weir pool on the Thames at Buscot, lined by willow trees and rope swings with grassy National Trust lawns for sunbathing

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!

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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).