Stay anywhere on the Swinton Estate at Masham and the wild swimming lake comes with it. The lake sits in the grounds of Swinton Park Hotel with a purpose-built swimming platform, and it is complimentary for residents rather than a day ticket you drive to. The stay Three ways to stay on the same 20,000-acre […]
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Alderford Lake at Whitchurch is one of the few places in Shropshire where you can pitch up on the shore of the lake you are going to swim in. Nine furnished bell tents and lakeside camping pitches sit metres from the water, and the open water swimming runs on the same site. The stay Two
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Two shepherd’s huts in a quiet corner of north-east Essex with a private wild swimming lake, a jetty and a wood-fired sauna looking over the water. You can be in the lake within a minute of getting out of bed. The stay There are two huts: Prithvi, named for earth, and Jala, named for water.
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Four huts, four spring-fed lakes, and one of them kept for swimming rather than fishing. Hastingford, at Hadlow Down near Uckfield, is a family-run fishery and farm where the top lake is a natural wild swimming pool — on the site, not near it. The stay The four fisherman’s huts — Carp, Roach, Perch and
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Five yurts, two roundhouses and two spring-fed swimming lakes across twelve acres of West Dorset. Walnut Farm at Melplash, just inland from Bridport, is one of the clearest examples of a stay where the swimming is on the property rather than signposted from it. The stay There are seven units in the fields: five fully
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One shepherd’s hut, one private spring-fed lake, and a pontoon to get in from. Lake Farm sits in a quiet West Dorset valley inside a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, and the swim is a few steps from the door rather than a drive down a lane. The stay Toller Hut is a single
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