There are currently 37 Olympic-standard (50 m) swimming pools in England. The following table details where they are located:
Indoor Outdoor North West Manchester x 2 — Stockport — Wigan — East Norwich Cambridge South East Crawley Guildford High Wycombe Chalfort, Buckinghamshire Aldershot Portsmouth — Oxford — Hitchin, Hertfordshire — Letchworth, Hertfordshire — Newbury East Midlands Loughborough Peterborough South West Bath Penzance Millfield Plymouth — Torbay — Cheltenham — Lymington Spa London Crystal Palace (temporarily closed till June 2008) Brockwell Ealing Charlton — Haringey — Hackney — Parliament Hill — Tooting Bee — Royal Parks (Serpentine) West Midlands Coventry — Yorkshire Leeds — Sheffield —
A further three 50 m indoor pools are under construction and another is at the planning stage.
According to the Active Places database there are 64 diving pools in England (and one planned to open shortly in Leeds). The following table shows where the 64 are located:
Region Bedford East Cambridge East Colchester East Hatfield East Hemel Hempstead East Hertford East Peterborough East Southend-On-Sea East Derby East Midlands Hinckley East Midlands Lincoln East Midlands Nottingham East Midlands Rutland East Midlands Spalding East Midlands Barnet London Crouch End London Crystal Palace (temporarily closed) London Waltham Forest London Darlington North East Hartlepool North East South Shields North East Sunderland North East Whitley Bay North East Bury North West Manchester North West Oldham North West Abingdon South East Alton South East Dartford South East Eastbourne South East Gillingham South East Gravesend South East Guildford South East Havant South East Leatherhead South East Maidstone South East Oxford South East Reading South East Southampton South East Swanley South East Tunbridge Wells South East Worthing South East Barnstaple South West Bristol South West Cheltenham South West Plymouth South West Poole South West Redruth South West St. Austell South West Coventry West Midlands Hereford West Midlands Ludlow West Midlands Solihull West Midlands Stafford West Midlands Sutton Coldfield West Midlands Worcester West Midlands Barnsley Yorkshire and the Humber Bradford Yorkshire and the Humber Grimsby Yorkshire and the Humber Harrogate Yorkshire and the Humber Leeds x2 Yorkshire and the Humber Rotherham Yorkshire and the Humber Sheffield Yorkshire and the Humber
Information on pool closures across England was not collected centrally prior to 2004. However, the most recent information from Sport England indicates that a total of 37 pools (not sites) in local authority ownership were closed between 2004 and 2006.
The Active Places database of sports facilities across England (established in 2004) currently lists 211 pools (not sites) that have been newly built between 1997 and 2006, of which 56 were built between 2004 and 2006. In addition, the database lists a further 1,237 local authority owned pools built before 1997 but refurbished between 1997 and 2006.