Parliament Hill Lido
A Grade II-listed 1938 outdoor lido on the edge of Hampstead Heath by Gospel Oak, unheated all year round.
- Adventure
- Price: £ · Budget
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Did you know
A 2005 refurbishment gave the pool a stainless steel lining, the first of its kind for an outdoor pool in Britain.
Local tip
It is unheated and open 365 days a year, with a sauna in winter only. On the City of London's price list summer breakfast swims were £5, other summer sessions £8.80 and winter swims £7. Bring your own padlock for the lockers.
Finding it
- Address
- Gordon House Road, Hampstead Heath, London NW5
- Nearest station
- Gospel Oak (Overground), 76 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- The Southampton ArmsA small independent ale and cider house on Highgate Road near Hampstead Heath, serving only beer and cider from independent UK producers in a dark-wood, pew-seated old-fashioned room.
- Parliament HillThe best-known viewpoint on Hampstead Heath, a favourite spot for kite flying with a wide, unbroken view of the City skyline.
- Hampstead Mixed Pond (Hampstead Heath Swimming Ponds)A Hampstead Heath swimming pond with lifeguards, changing rooms and showers, open to men and women together. The Highgate Men's Pond and Kenwood Ladies' Pond nearby are single-sex.
- Keats HouseThe Hampstead house where poet John Keats lived from 1818 to 1820, writing Ode to a Nightingale and several of his other best-known poems, saved from demolition and opened as a museum in 1925.