Swimming In Bishop's Stortford - It All Began In A River 130 Years Ago

Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club, formed innowadays have use of three other pools located
1884, are an amateur swimming club based at theat Bishop's Stortford College, Herts & Essex High
Bishops Stortford College Swimming Pool and holdSchool, & Leventhorpe School.
regular training sessions during the week. BeingThe nineties saw some great successes for
almost 130 years old, it is rumoured that the clubBishop's Stortford Swimming Club. In 1991, the
is the longest established swimming club inJuniors won the prestigious Daplyns Trophy and
Hertfordshire.repeated this feat in 1996 and 1998. They also
From humble beginnings, which included using ahad 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 poolPossibly the greatest achievement of the club to
where the multi-story car park now stands, thedate 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 inDivision One of the Speedo League after winning
1974. This led to an influx of new members, andthe Division Two Championship. They currently
as the club had never paid to hire a pool, theycompete 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 clubSwimming League.