23 Outdoor Pools In The UK That Everyone Must Visit At Least Once

Here's your summer bucket list.

1. London Fields Lido, Hackney

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London Fields Lido is super popular with locals, and for good reason! It's an Olympic-sized, heated outdoor swimming pool that's open all year round. Plus, it's recently been refurbished so the changing facilities are all lovely and new.

Price: £4.85

2. Saltdean Lido, Brighton

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Saltdean Lido is a gorgeous modernist swimming pool that has just been reopened after local residents campaigned to save it. The pool is huge and the architecture is beautiful.

Price: £4 for an early-morning session or £12 for an all-day swim.

3. Jubilee Pool, Penzance

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Cornwall's Jubilee Pool is a stunning art deco lido that's filled with fresh saltwater. The views are to-die-for, and there's a café on site (which serves cocktails and pizza!) so you can while away a whole day there.

Price: £5

4. Bristol Lido, Clifton

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Swimming at Bristol Lido is hands down one of the most glamourous ways to spend a sunny day. Visitors can buy packages for a swim session and meal (they do breakfast, lunch, afternoon tapas, and dinner) and the food is glorious. There's a sauna, steamroom, and hot tub on site and the spa products in the showers and changing rooms are gorgeous.

Price: £20 for a three-hour swim, or from £35 for a swim and breakfast

5. Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Aberdeen

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Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool is a gorgeous, child-friendly lido that's well worth a visit if you're in Aberdeen. It first opened in the '30s and it's more popular now than ever.

Price: £5.45

6. Pells Pool, Lewes

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Pells Pool is the oldest documented freshwater outdoor lido in the UK and they sell ice creams there! It's really cute and it's a lovely place to escape the heat in the summer.

Price: £4.50

7. Shap Swimming Pool, Cumbria

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At over 900 feet above sea level, Shap Swimming Pool is England's highest lido! It's just 16 meters long, so it's a small pool but it's really cute and definitly worth a visit if you're in the area.

Price: £4

8. Tinside Lido, Plymouth

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Tinside Lido is a gorgeous art deco, Grade II listed, saltwater lido that overlooks the Plymouth harbour. It has its own café and sunbathing terrace so you can really make a day of it!

Price: £5

9. Sandford Parks Lido, Cheltenham

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Sandford Parks Lido was opened in 1935 and is super popular with Cheltenham's locals. Next to its main swimming pool, there's a smaller children's pool too so it's the perfect place to spend a day out with your family.

Price: £5

10. Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park

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In the winter Serpentine Lido is only open to its swim club members, but in the summer months it opens to the general public too. Swimming in the Serpentine is the most magical feeling and well worth doing if you're in London during the summer.

Price: £4.80, or £4.10 after 4pm

11. Jesus Green Outdoor Pool, Cambridge

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At 91 meters, Jesus Green Outdoor Pool is one of the longest lidos in the UK. It's surrounded by trees so it isn't overlooked and there's plenty of space to sunbathe near the pool.

Price: £4.60, or £7.20 if you want to use the sauna

12. Arundel Lido, West Sussex

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Arundel Lido is a lovely outdoor pool right in the middle of the South Downs National Park. There's a café on site as well as an adventure play park for kids.

Price: £7.50

13. Bath Thermae Spa, Bath

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This open air, roof top pool is open all year round and offers the most wonderful views of Bath. You can combine a visit with a meal in the lovely Spring Restaurant and they offer spa treatments too. The baths are fed by naturally warm, mineral-rich waters, making it a super relaxing place to spend the day.

Price: £36 for a two-hour spa session during the week, or £40 at the weekend

14. Bude Sea Pool, Cornwall

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If you're in Cornwall, you should add Bude Sea Pool to your list of places to visit. It's totally natural and was built under the curve of the cliffs in the 1930s. It's swimming in the Atlantic Ocean without actually... being in the ocean.

Price: Free!

15. Ilkley Pool and Lido, Ilkley

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The indoor pool at Ilkley is open all year round, but it's the outdoor pool that's well worth a visit in the summer. The views are gorgeous and you can even bring your own picnic!

Price: £7.90, or £4.65 during off-peak times

16. Wycombe Rye Lido, High Wycombe

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Wycombe Rye Lido has recently been refurbished, so its facilities are lovely. The pool is heated and it even has a sundeck that's perfect for sunbathing!

Price: £6

17. Heathersage Swimming Pool, Peak District

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If you're in the Peak District and you fancy a dip, Heathersage Swimming Pool is the place to go. It's been open since the '30s and it's super popular with locals.

Price: £6.50

18. Chagford Swimming Pool, Devon

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Chagford Swimming Pool is river-fed and heated by solar panels. It also uses minimal chlorine to mimic natural water as much as possible. You can take your own picnic and make a day of it!

Price: £4

19. Thames Lido, Reading

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Like Bristol Lido, Thames Lido offers swim and eat packages. There are saunas, lovely spa products, and even a hot tub—and you can eat on its terrace. It's super glam and well worth a visit.

Price: £20 for three-hour swim session, or from £35 for a swim and breakfast

20. Hampstead Ponds, Hampstead

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Visiting Hampstead's ponds is the perfect way to spend a summer's day in London. There's a ladies pond, a men's pond, and a mixed pond and they're all absolutely gorgeous. And after you've had a dip you can always have a picnic on the heath.

Price: £2

21. Nantwich Outdoor Brine Pool, Nantwich

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Nantwich's lido has been open since 1935 and although it wasn't heated back then, it is now! It's a lovely place, and it gets super busy in the summer.

Price: £5

22. Droitwich Spa Lido, Worcestershire

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Driotwich Spa Lido is a saltwater pool with water features and a café. It's 40 meters long so you can have a proper swim there.

Price: £5.50

23. Oasis Sports Centre, Camden

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The lido at Oasis Sports Centre is small, but it's the only open air swimming pool in central London. It's heated and it's so popular that it's even busy in the winter.

Price: £6.05