Taplow Lake

Session dates and times

Please see below for a full list of swim sessions for 2025 and 2026 – please note, the times and days may vary week by week:

2026 Session dates and times (Control Group)

Dates / Times:

• Intro on Zoom – Weds 8th Apr 2026 7.30pm
• Session 1 – Sat 11 Apr 2026 9am
• Session 2 – Sat 18 Apr 2026 9am
• Session 3 – Sat 25 Apr 2026 9am
• Session 4 – Sat 2 May 2026 9am
• Session 5 – Sat 9 May 2026 9am
• Session 6 – Sat 16 May 2026 9am
• Session 7 – Sat 23 May 2026 9am
• Session 8 – Sat 30 May 2026 9am

2025 Session dates and times (Swim Group)

Swim Sessions: Swim sessions will start on Saturday 26th April 2025 at 9am

Saturdays from 9am-10am

Location, including where to meet

Bray Lake, Monkey Island Lane, Windsor Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 2EB

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Location to meet:

Outside lower deck of the café at the front of the clubhouse (Photo to come)

Transport links

Trains:

Nearest train stations are Maidenhead & Windsor (2 stations – both different lines) – All 3 stations are on different train lines Maidenhead is the closest – a 5-15 min bus ride from Bray Lake)

Buses: 

• No.16 bus Maidenhead – Windsor – Maidenhead – https://www.thamesvalleybuses.com/services/CTNY/16 Leaves central Maidenhead at 8am on Saturdays (8.03 from station) & arrives at Bray Lake stop at 8.08am. The later bus (9am) will be too late for the new start time sadly.
• No. 37 bus – High Wycombe – Loudwater – Bourne End – Cookham – Maidenhead – Fifield – Dedworth – Clewer – Windsor and vice versa. Leaves central Maidenhead at 8.25am on Saturdays (8.29 from station) and arrives at the Bray Lake stop at 8.40am https://www.carouselbuses.co.uk/services/CSLB/37?date=2026-04-11&direction=outbound&all=on

It’s a 5-10min walk down Monkey Island Lane to get to the lake clubhouse.

Directions by car

Parking information

Free Parking on approach to the clubhouse

Swim ability

We have room for people to dip, however Ideally if participants are able to swim 25m in some shape or form they can then swim out from the beach area.

Accessibility of venue

There are no steps to be able to access the edge of the lake. There is gentle sloping access into the water via a beach entry point (if required) It is possible for people to stand & ‘dip’ in this area as it is shallow enough, without needing to swim too far.

Facilities (including where you can get changed)

Indoor heated changing rooms & showers, individual outside changing cubicles and indoor places to warm up. Café on site

What to bring with you

Minimum – Costume / Trunks, Towel, lots of warm layers, big warm coat, woolly hat, warm drink for post swim warm up. (Don’t be fooled by spring sunshine! You may need warm clothes after swimming)

The lake requires everyone to have a Brightly coloured swim cap & tow float.

Other things that might be useful:

Some sort of changing robe, neoprene wetsuit gloves, beach shoes/footwear to swim in, flip flops or sliders to walk to edge of lake, goggles, hot water bottle and a wetsuit if you would prefer to use one. We aren’t expecting participants to have all these things or go out & buy them especially (unless they want to). We do have lots of these additional items that we are able to lend. Please contact us to let us know if there is anything you don’t have from the required items & need to borrow. We can also advise on where to buy items from should you prefer to do that.