Beautiful heated lido next to a campsite where you can have after-hours swim parties

Located successful adjacent proximity to the Lake District is simply a quaint and affable heated lido and neighbouring campsite - with the accidental for precocious nighttime aquatics parties and Sunday greeting meal dips

A heated lido next to a campsite is the perfect spot for evening aquatics parties.

Sat connected the banks of the River Eden, successful Penrith, is Lazonby Lido - a 60-year-old outdoor heated excavation located successful the bosom of Eden Valley. The pool, which opened to the nationalist successful 1964, is located adjacent to a campsite connected the outskirts of Lazonby Village, astir a five-minute locomotion from Lazonby and Kirkoswald bid station.

The lido measures 17 metres agelong by 8 metres wide, and is heated to 24C. At the shallow end, the lido has a extent of 1 metre, and astatine the deeper extremity it has a extent of 2.29 metres - and it adjacent features a tiny h2o fountain.

In summation to a squad of afloat trained lifeguards, the excavation besides has toys and floats, a picnic area, a kiosk for snacks, drinks and crystal cream, blistery showers, under-cover seating areas, a playground and evening excavation parties. If an evening aquatics isn't your preference, the lido besides runs Sunday meal swims doubly a month, wherever you tin 'dip and dine' betwixt 9am and 11am, with a blistery butty aft your paddle.

In a reappraisal connected Google, Anya said: "A precise cheerful and welcoming excavation successful a picturesque village. The staff/volunteers successful the kiosk/tuck store were precise friendly. There are male/female changing rooms with a lukewarm showers and toilets. No lockers, but determination is simply a sheltered country by the excavation wherever you tin permission your belongings.

"We went connected a weekday during word clip and opening hours were constricted 3.30pm to 6pm for a wide session. It was £6 per idiosyncratic and we booked online via the website (I tin ideate during sunny days the excavation gets precise engaged with the campsite adjacent door).

"There is besides a learner excavation with accepted fountain - fab! Pool is clean, good maintained, and the beingness defender was watching the chaos of kids and floats arsenic we swam. Definitely 1 for household fun."

The lido is unfastened May done September some for weekdays and weekends. Entry costs £6 per person, and a scope of play and household passes are available.

The campsite provides the perfect spot to bask views crossed the Eden Valley and to the Pennines and is surrounded by peaceful fields and woodland. The tiny campsite features 10 pitches with electrical hook-ups, ablution facilities and a playground, which is simply a two-minute locomotion from the pool.

If you are staying astatine the campsite and privation to research somewhat further afield, a mile down the roadworthy is Eden Outdoor Adventures which offers a scope of activities including Ghyll Scrambling (climbing up and down upland streams), climbing and abseiling, canoeing, via ferrata (climbing that combines hiking and scrambling connected a mountain) and raft building.