• The Elan Valley was home to Shelley, who loved to bathe in mountain pools and sail toy boats down the stream

• Hay-on-Wye, home of literary festivals and second-hand bookshops, is also the site of the famous riverside ‘Warren’ – a stretch of Wye-side shingle and shallows popular with families

• The Waterfalls Woods are the most spectacular series of waterfalls in Wales, with aqua forest lidos fit for the gods

• A series of remote waterfalls on the side of the Brecon Beacons with stunning views

• Wolf’s Leap in the wild Cambrian Mountains was home to wolves and is now famous for red kites

• A high tarn is haunted by King Arthur’s ‘Lady of the Lake’

• The Fairy Glen is one of the most beautiful gorges in the popular Betws-y-Coed tourist area

• Waterfalls plunge through the forested Mawddach valley, rich in Welsh gold. There are several ruined mines and you can still find gold if you pan the pools. Many mountain bike trails too.

• Fantastic old slate quarries are like Mediterranean lagoons, coloured azure blue by faint traces of copper

• Wales is the place for tarn-swimming - the ultimate landscape immersion and wilderness trip.

• Follow in the footsteps of Mallory, Hillary and some of our most famous Everest mountaineers and complete the Snowdon swim tour

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).