The Portishead Open Air Pool opened in April 1962 and is a 33m heated, typically 28 C, open-air pool and toddler pool.
The pool has a cafe that offers a variety of drinks, snacks, ice creams, cakes, fruit, light meals and sweets. Our coffee and teas are all Fairtrade and where possible we source from local suppliers.
Open from April to September every year, although is open for cold water swimming at limited times out of the main summer season.
In this 'you may also like' section we attempt to answer what else can I do? Here you have a list by order of being the closest some more beaches, things to see and do, places to eat and upcoming events.
Beach: Portishead beach View: Located next to Portishead’s open-air pool and overlooking the small windswept beach at across the Bristol Channel. What’s on the menu?: A contemporary restaurant serving classic brasserie dishes, modern British cuisine and tapas. Stop off as well for afternoon tea and taste their delicious homemade cakes. Read more…
Portishead beach is located on the north Somerset coast within the Severn Estuary and is one of the closest beaches to Bristol at just 5 miles. The beach is an estuary beach and so you don’t really get sand, much more mud and rocky beach backed by some grass and salt marsh, adjacent to the beach is a 100-year-old artificial lake Read more…
Portishead Point Lighthouse is also known as Battery Point Lighthouse after Battery Point where it stands. The lighthouse was built in 1930’s and is a black metal pyramid on a concrete base with a height of 9 meters (30 feet). Read more…
Blacknore Point lighthouse was built by Trinity House to assist shipping moving into and out to the docks at Avonmouth. Blacknore Point Lighthouse was built by Trinity House to assist shipping moving into and out to the docks at Avonmouth on the river Severn north-west of Bristol. The Lighthouse was built in 1894 and converted to automatic electric operation in Read more…
