{{Short description|Outdoor swimming venue}}{{Infobox venue |name=Pool Bridge Farm |city=York |owner=Mike Fletcher |location=Crockey Hill |image=Monet lake at Pool Bridge Farm.jpg |caption=Monet lake (July 2025) |logo_image=File:Pool_Bridge_Farm_logo.jpg |logo_size=200px |logo_caption=Pool Bridge Farm logo }}
'''Pool Bridge Farm''' is a farm and open water swimming venue in Crockey Hill, York, UK.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-12-17 |title=Pool Bridge Farm plans to build bigger car park |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7q1vygn2do |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> The farm is owned by Mike Fletcher and family.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2024-03-09 |title=Brrr...the day I went cold water swimming in York with Bear Gryll's sister |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/24167872.cold-water-swimming-pool-bridge-farm-wheldrake-york/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=York Press |language=en}}</ref> The farm opened it's lakes for outdoor swimming in 2022.<ref name=":0" /> Prior to this, all lakes were used for coarse fishing, with an emphasis on carp and catfish at Q lake.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Prabhu |date=2021-09-27 |title=Pool Bridge Farm, Crockey Hill |url=https://www.fisheryguide.co.uk/pool-bridge-farm/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=Fishery Guide |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2018 the site hosted a fund raising event to support people with Motor Neurone Disease.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-27 |title=York angling contest in memory of wife raises more than £6,000 |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/16382424.york-angling-contest-memory-wife-raises-6-000/ |access-date=2025-09-03 |website=York Press |language=en}}</ref>
In 2024 it was named by ''The Guardian'' as one of the UK's top ten pop up sauna locations.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=Siân |date=2024-03-10 |title=Hot ticket: 10 of the best pop-up saunas in the UK |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/mar/10/10-best-pop-up-saunas-in-the-uk |access-date=2025-03-14 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-06 |title=York wild swimming spot among best pop-up saunas - 'you won't want to leave' |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/24231356.north-yorkshire-wild-swimming-spot-among-best-pop-up-saunas/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=York Press |language=en}}</ref> The same year it was named by ''The Telegraph'' as one of the best places for a festive dip.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The best places in Britain for a Christmas or New Year’s Day swim |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activity-and-adventure/britain-christmas-new-years-day-swim/ |access-date=2025-09-03 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> One of the lakes is called Monet, named after a series of paintings entitled ''Water Lilies'', due to the fact that those flowers grow in it.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Bromley |first=Freya |date=2025-03-02 |title=How contrast therapy became 2025's biggest wellness trend |url=https://www.cntraveller.com/article/how-contrast-therapy-became-2025s-biggest-wellness-trend |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=CN Traveller |language=en-GB}}</ref> Another lake is called M lake; the site also has saunas for use alongside outdoor swimming.<ref name=":2" /> The farm also hosts full moon swims,<ref name=":1" /> and has a campsite.<ref name=":3" /> It was a partner on a 2023 project led by York St John University that explored disabled access to blue spaces.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heinemeyer |first=Catherine |last2=Berding |first2=Raphaela |date=2023-07-01 |title=Disability Access to Blue Spaces: A joint research project between Open Country and York St. John University |url=https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/9346/ |access-date=2025-09-03 |website=ray.yorksj.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>
== Gallery == <gallery> File:Pool Bridge Farm - geograph.org.uk - 4027326.jpg|Pool Bridge Farm (June 2014) File:Horseshoe Lake at Pool Bridge Farm.jpg|Horseshoe lake (March 2025) File:M Lake at Pool Bridge Farm.jpg|M lake (March 2025) File:Monet Lake at Pool Bridge Farm.jpg|Monet lake (March 2025) File:Inside of changing barn at pool bridge farm.jpg|Inside changing barn (March 2025) File:Cold water safety sign at Pool Bridge Farm.jpg|Cold water safety sign, M lake (March 2025) </gallery>
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== External links == *[https://www.poolbridge.co.uk/ Official website]
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Category:Swimming pools Category:Farms in Yorkshire Category:Fishing