compiled by Oliver Merrington, University of Cambridge.

My main purpose in creating these webpages is to provide a historical background to those lidos built in the 1920s and 1930s, and, as a bonus, to provide enough detail on these and other open-air pools still open, for potential visitors.

The five webpages I have compiled are:

• Lidos and open air pools in London;
• *Lidos in the London area no longer open;
• 1930s Lidos outside London;
• Other open air pools outside London;
• Tidal salt-water seaside pools.

Also a page of Links and References including books on lidos.

*This is the only page that includes closed lidos.
Please note that I am not intending to compile a list of closed lidos outside London, though others may do so in the future.

Index to all pools still open, listed on these webpages:

Abingdon: Abbey Meadow Open Air Swimming Pool
Addlestone: Abbeylands Sports Centre Pool
Aldershot Lido
Alfreton Lido, Derbyshire
Arundel Open Air Pool
Ashburton Bathing Lake
Ashby de la Zouch: Hood Park Leisure Centre
Aylesbury: Aqua Vale Swimming and Fitness Centre
Banbury Open Air Pool
Beccles Swimming Pool
Bourne Outdoor Swimming Pool
Brightlingsea Open Air Pool
Brighton: Saltdean Lido
Brixham seawater swimming pool
Brynamman Swimming Pool, Dyfed
Bude Open Air Pool
Burgess Hill: The Triangle
Cambridge: Jesus Green Lido
Carterton Town Council Swimming Pool
Castle Donington Community College Outdoor Pool
Chagford Swimming Pool, Dartmoor
Chelmsford: Riverside Ice and Leisure Centre
Cheltenham: Sandford Parks Lido
Chesham Open Air Swimming Pool
Chipping Norton Outdoor Pool
Cirencester Open Air Swimming Pool
Cumnock Swimming Pool, East Ayrshire 
Daventry Outdoor Pool
Droitwich Lido
Faringdon Open Air Pool, Oxfordshire
Faversham Swimming Pool
Gillingham Swimming Pool
Gourock Open Air Pool
Guildford Lido
Haltwhistle Swimming and Leisure Centre, Northumberland
Hathersage Open Air Heated Swimming Pool
Helmsley Open Air Pool
Highley Pool, Shropshire
Highworth Recreation Centre, Wiltshire
Hilsea Lido, Portsmouth
Hitchin Swimming Centre, Hertfordshire
Hoddesdon Open Air Pool
High Wycombe: Holywell Mead Outdoor Swimming Pool
Huish Episcopi Sports Centre: Swimming Pool
Ilkley Pool and Lido
Ipswich: Broomhill Open Air Pool
Jersey: Havre des Pas Swimming Pool, Channel Islands
Kenilworth: Abbey Fields Swimming Pool
Letchworth Open Air Pool, Hertfordshire
Lewes: The Pells Outdoor Swimming Pool
London: The Evian Lido / Brockwell Lido LB Lambeth
London: Charlton Lido LB Greenwich
London: Highgate Ponds LB Camden
London: Hampton Heated Open Air Pool LB Richmond-upon-Thames
London: Hornsey, Park Road Pools LB Haringey
London: Compton Leisure Centre, Northolt LB Ealing
London: Oasis Swimming Pool LB Camden
London: Parliament Hill Lido LB Camden
London: Richmond Lido (Pools in the Park) LB Richmond-upon-Thames
London: Ruislip "Lido" LB Hillingdon
London: The Serpentine Lido, London LB Kensington & Chelsea
London: Tooting Bec Lido, London LB Wandsworth
London: Future - a floating Lido on the Thames
Lymington: Seawater Baths
Maldon Swimming Lake
Malmesbury Outdoor Pool
Marbury Park Open Air Pool, Cheshire
Marsden Park Open Air Pool, Lancashire
Matlock Lido is an indoor pool
Milton Keynes: Wolverton Pool
Moretonhampstead: Town Swimming pool
Nantwich Outdoor Brine Pool
Newbury: Northcroft Leisure Centre
Nottingham: Bulwell Lido
Oxford: Hinksey Pools
Penzance: Jubilee Pool
Peterborough Lido
Petersfield Open Air Pool
Pittenweem Tidal Swimming Pool, Fife
Plymouth: Tinside Lido
Pontypridd: Ynysangharad Swimming Pool
Portishead Open Air Pool, nr Bristol
Portsoy Open Air Pool, Aberdeenshire
Royston Outdoor Pool, Hertfordshire
St. Albans: Open-air Pool
Scarborough: Atlantis Water Park
Shaftesbury Swimming Pool
Shepton Mallet Outdoor Pool
Skegness: Embassy Swimming Pool
South Dartmoor Leisure Centre: Outdoor Pool
Outdoor Pool, Stanford Hall, Notts.
Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool, Aberdeenshire
Stenhousemuir: The Lido
Stratford Park Leisure Centre, Gloucestershire
Street: Greenbank Swimming Pool 
Sutton Park: Keeper's Pool 
Swansea: Blackpill Lido
Tarlair Pool, Aberdeenshire
Teignmouth: Outdoor Swimming Pool
Theale Green Recreation Centre, near Reading
Tonbridge Swimming Pool
Topsham Pool, near Exeter
Wallingford: Riverside Park & Pool
WaterWorld 2000, Staffordshire
Ware: The Lido
Weardale Open Air Swimming Pool
Wick: The Trinkie Outdoor Swimming Pool
Wiveliscombe Open Air Pool 
Woburn: Open Air Swimming Pool
Woodhall Spa Swimming Pool, Lincolnshire
Woodstock Open Air Pool
Worthing: The Lido

Many thanks to Ros Taylor of The Guardian, for awarding this page Best of the net on Saturday June 22 2002.