Thursday, August 6, 2015
Outdoor Swimming: Lacock
We'd heard that there was a swimming location in Lacock for as long as we've been outdoor swimming, but I guess we were a bit nervous about trying to find a location based just on information we found on the web - which mainly revolved around the words 'beach' and 'rapids'. Especially as the Wild Swim Map had the location for the Lacock swim near Malmesbury, the wrong side of the M4 by quite a few miles.I had a good look on Google maps and found that there was a 'path' through the field that looked to be the right location based on the sources we'd found online. So in the end we thought, 'What the heck', and went to see if we could find it.
We parked at the National trust car park and walked over the bridge and into the field over the stone stile.
The bridge over the river. |
Not too cold! |
Looking upstream. |
Lucy swimming like a boss! |
Warming up with a cuppa. |
It's actually a really lovely spot. The roof of Lacock Abbey can be seen when swimming and when you're back up on the banks there are lovely views of the surrounding area. It's great to have yet another use for the tiny village of Lacock.
Coming back to Internet-Land I made a new swimming location for Lacock and asked the site maintainers to remove the one near Malmesbury, which I see they have done.
If you'd like to visit this spot, click here. Already been here? It'd be great to hear your experiences in the comments.
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