| Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club, formed in | | | | nowadays have use of three other pools located |
| 1884, are an amateur swimming club based at the | | | | at Bishop's Stortford College, Herts & Essex High |
| Bishops Stortford College Swimming Pool and hold | | | | School, & Leventhorpe School. |
| regular training sessions during the week. Being | | | | The nineties saw some great successes for |
| almost 130 years old, it is rumoured that the club | | | | Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club. In 1991, the |
| is the longest established swimming club in | | | | Juniors won the prestigious Daplyns Trophy and |
| Hertfordshire. | | | | repeated this feat in 1996 and 1998. They also |
| From humble beginnings, which included using a | | | | had further success by winning the Peanuts |
| railed-off River Stort near the old cattle market, | | | | League in 1993 and were runners up in 1994. |
| and during the 1950's a new cold outdoor pool | | | | Possibly the greatest achievement of the club to |
| where the multi-story car park now stands, the | | | | date was winning the Herts Major League in 1995. |
| club finally moved to the newly built facilities, | | | | Two years later saw a bounce straight back into |
| including an indoor pool, at Grange Paddocks in | | | | Division One of the Speedo League after winning |
| 1974. This led to an influx of new members, and | | | | the Division Two Championship. They currently |
| as the club had never paid to hire a pool, they | | | | compete in the Herts Major League, Herts |
| had to introduce a yearly membership fee of 25p. | | | | Peanuts League and The National Arena |
| In addition to Grange Paddocks, the club | | | | Swimming League. |