Cambridge college bans swimming at beauty spot beloved by Byron

Petition signed by 8,000 after King’s College takes ‘reluctant’ step to ban swimming at Grantchester Meadows

A college has banned swimming in a stretch of the River Cam that has been popular for bathers for centuries and where the writers Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke went skinny dipping.

King’s College Cambridge, which owns Granchester Meadows, a riverside beauty spot south of Cambridge, erected a noticeboard on Thursday that also bans camping and launching boats from the banks.

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