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Bristol Channel Glenthorne Cove - Porthcawl — United Kingdom

Glenthorne - Porthcawl

27.4 km
Distance
Glenthorne Cove ↔ Porthcawl Beach
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Glenthorne Cove ↔ Porthcawl Beach: 27.4 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 12 crossings by swimmers from 2 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: British Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.