A walk round Blaise Estate followed by a dip, sauna and picnic at Henleaze lake - can you imagine anything dreamier?
5 miles, 3 hours for the walk. Up to 4 more hours at the lake.
You’ll need to book a place on this event - scroll down to book.
We’ll set off on a walk that should take us about 3 hours. Then we’ll have access to the lake from 4pm until 8pm, for swimming, sauna and a picnic together.
You can get a walk only ticket if you just want to do the walk element.
Walk info
Meeting time 12:45pm for a 1pm set off.
Meeting point Meet outside the Henleaze swimming lake entrance.
Difficulty Moderate. There’s a little bit of ascent and descent, but quite gentle. About 2 hours 15 mins walking time.
Route OS Maps route
Toilets There are toilets at the lake at the end of the walk.
Cafe/pub We’ll have a picnic at the lake at the end. Bring your own food for this. There’s a coffee/ice cream van at the lake.
Lunch stop No lunch stop on this walk, but we’ll have snack breaks and have a picnic at the lake around dinner time. Bring food for the picnic.
Public transport Buses 1, 2, 2a and 13 from town.
Parking Residential streets nearby - please park mindfully of local residents and do not block driveways. Leave enough time to find a spot and check for local restrictions.
Leaders Hannah and Abi - see a pic of them on our team page, so you know who to look for.
Dogs Dogs are welcome on the walk but not at the swimming lake.
Access info Mostly pavements and paths, some grassy and woodland paths. Not suitable for wheelchairs and buggies, but we can make some adaptations and find an alternative route for wheelchair users. Please get in touch if this applies to you.
Refunds: we can refund you if we can replace you up until 1 week before the event. Otherwise, we can’t offer a refund.
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Swimmers
Towel (and extra towel for the sauna)
Suncream
Wetsuit (if you want to)
Picnic food
Snacks
Plenty of water
Picnic blanket or camping chair
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There is one accessible gender neutral toilet. There’s several gender neutral individual changing cubicles indoors, and some further any gender outdoor changing cubicles on the other side of the lake. There should also be one gender neutral accessible shower when we’re there.
There are men’s and women’s changing facilities (cubicles and communal changing), toilets and showers. We have been assured that no restrictions have been put in place for these facilities following the Supreme Court ruling.
Henleaze Lake said: “Everyone is welcome and we would consider the Club a safe space for everyone.”
We will not have exclusive use of the lake and there will be other swimmers around, although we will have an area reserved for us to sit together.
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We anticipate this will be a popular walk and we’re sorry if you miss out on a swim spot.
You can:
sign up to the waitlist, and we’ll let you know if a swim space becomes available
get a walk-only ticket and hope for a no show. We’ll issue you a numbered ticket at the start of the walk and if we have any swimming no shows, we’ll pick from a hat to fill the places
do both!
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Henleaze swim lake is a members-only swimming lake (with a very, very long waitlist!)
You need to be able to swim 50 metres unaided in open water to use the swim lake.
We’re really lucky they have allowed us to visit as a community group as part of their wider usage scheme. You can visit the lake website for more information on what to expect.
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The lake are not charging us to use it, but we have made the decision to attach a cost to:
cover our admin costs for planning and organising the event
avoid a high drop out and no show rate. We have found in the past that when we offer free ticketed events, we have a lot of no shows. This means opportunities like this are not used to their full potential. Lots of people who would’ve come miss out.
Any extra money we make from this event beyond our costs will be put towards our equipment bursary scheme, to help low income members buy the kit they need (launching soon).