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There is a lot of good swimming to be had in the Bristol region, with several vibrant and active outdoor swimming scenes in the region -...

Listen to the podcast here Charlotte Sawyer is a documentary film maker and photographer who captures cinematic stories that cross...

Listen here Sarah Giles lives and swims in open water in Oxford. She is Programme Development Manager at SportExcel UK, a sports...

This podcast is about swims in the Shire - Tolkien’s Oxfordshire. I have no idea if Tolkien was a swimmer, but there is plenty of...

The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...

I could feel it all over again this Christmas, the sense of deja-vu, of raw sewage running between my fingers and toes. The Oxford DODO...

It is September, and time to take stock of the summer season of open water swimming. While countless thousands have enjoyed the water...

The Wild Open Swim Blog is the organised work of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford...

It somehow feels right to leave my stripy togs in Copenhagen to be recycled. On the last day here, after nearly three years away, I put...

Tom Elliott and Danny Longman swam all the lakes of the Lake District in four days, and Richard Flint filmed them. Sounds simple, but of...

What do Olympic Gold and Bronze medal winner Duncan Goodhew, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, and Captain Matthew Webb, the first...

It is late August, a time of year when summer is coming close to ending, and when I start to look forward to winter again. I used to...

Ben Cousins is 72 years old and is passionate about the ocean – he has surfed it, swum in it, and now free dives in and around the ocean...