Given to the town by the Bathurst family in 1920, a 38-metre open-air pool on Lydney High Street, run by volunteers since 2000
Open to visitorsopen about May to early September; cash on the gate, no booking — check opening times before you go
Charles Bathurst, later Lord Bledisloe, gave Bathurst Pool to Lydney and Aylburton to mark the 21st birthday of his eldest son, Benjamin, and the pool opened on 2 October 1920. For its early decades the pool was emptied every Saturday night and refilled from a nearby stream on Sunday morning. The council decided to close it in 1999, and the next spring local people formed the Friends of Bathurst Pool, a charity that has run the pool on a lease ever since, with volunteers doing the work. The season runs from about May to early September; there’s no booking, and you pay cash at the gate. Lydney station is about 1km south-east, and Lydney Park Gardens, on the Bathurst family’s estate, is about 1.5km west.
