Water today 14.2 degrees · air 11 · open until 19:00

Fifty metres, outdoors, every day of the year.

An unheated 1936 lido kept open through the winter by a trust and about four hundred stubborn members. Lane swimming from six, the whole pool to yourself if you come at dawn in February.

50 m

Eight lanes, unheated

1936

Opened, Grade II listed

365

Days open a year

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Eight lanes, 50 by 24 metres, unheated

Lanes 1 to 3 roped for fast swimmers today

Today, Thursday

Lane allocations change through the day. Nobody is ever asked to leave the water when a session ends; you just move lane.

Last entry 30 minutes before closing

06:00

Early lanes

Members and pay-as-you-go, all eight lanes

Lanes 1 to 8 Finished
09:30

Lessons and school

Shallow end reserved, four lanes stay open

Lanes 5 to 8 Finished
12:00

Open swim

Everyone, no lane discipline, floats allowed

Whole pool On now
15:00

Quiet hour

No whistles, no music, no lane counting

Lanes 1 to 6 Next
17:00

Club training

Saltgate Otters, spectators welcome from the deck

Lanes 1 to 4 Later
18:00

Dusk swim

Underwater lights on, tea urn out

Whole pool Later

Prices, held down on purpose.

The trust runs a deficit on entry and covers it with membership. That is the arrangement, and we would rather say so than pretend the numbers work.

4.50

One swim

Any session, any length of time. Under 16s and over 60s swim for 2.20, and nobody is asked to prove it.

28

Monthly membership

Unlimited swimming, a locker key, and first refusal on the winter Christmas morning slot. About 400 people.

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If you cannot pay

Ask at the kiosk for a hardship pass. It lasts a year, it is not means-tested, and the person on the desk will not make it a conversation.

In February the water reads four degrees.

Winter swimming is unsupervised and genuinely risky if you have not built up to it. Come in October and let the temperature drop with you, or come to a Saturday induction and we will show you how to get out again safely.

Book a winter induction