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@General_Lucifer
Many of the waterways up here are getting cleaner, year on year. I swam in the North Sea quite happily last week and in the sea off Bournemouth the week before.
An acquaintance of mine who put me onto this book regularly tootles off to find swimming holes and slow flowing rivers, and the River Wharfe is still an excellent stretch of swimming river, with the added bonus of being full of signal crayfish - bring goggles and a mesh bag and you can pluck the feisty blighters off the river bed for a great BBQ snack!
Your neck of the woods is a perfect spot for wild swimming, Matt. Read the book and you'll find out!