Cleveland Pools
Georgian riverside lido with a crescent of changing rooms, restored after decades of dereliction.
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This guide to Cleveland Pools in Bath follows a riverside lido from its early nineteenth-century beginnings through closure, a spell as a trout farm and years of decay. It centres on the neighbours who spent nearly two decades fighting to bring swimmers back, and on September twenty twenty-three, when the gates finally opened to the public. Best heard by the crescent of changing rooms, with the River Avon at your back.
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