Editing Bridgwater (section)

===Leisure===
East Bridgwater Sports Centre offers badminton courts, outside football pitches, squash courts and a fitness room.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/irj/public/services/directory/location?rid=/guid/10cf35ca-0f49-2c10-ada0-82a0e8406b2d |title=East Bridgwater Sports Centre |publisher=Somerset County Council |access-date=4 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621224322/http://www.somerset.gov.uk/irj/public/services/directory/location?rid=%2Fguid%2F10cf35ca-0f49-2c10-ada0-82a0e8406b2d |archive-date=21 June 2011}}</ref>

Bridgwater had a series of swimming pools from 1890 until 2009. The first pool, on Old Taunton Road, was replaced by the ''Bridgwater [[Lido (swimming pool)|Lido]]'' on Broadway, which was opened in 1960 by the Mayor, Alderman Mrs A. B. Potterton. The lido, which had three pools, a diving bay and paddling pool, was demolished in the late 1980s to make way for a supermarket and to fund the indoor ''Sedgemoor Splash'' swimming pool in Mount Street, which opened in 1991.<ref name=Somerset6>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18640 |title='Bridgwater', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and neighbouring parishes) (1992), pp. 192-206 |access-date=15 April 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303083620/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18640 |archive-date= 3 March 2010 }}</ref> In 2009, after the local council were unable to raise the funds needed to upgrade the pool, it was closed and demolished to make way for another supermarket.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6109684/Sit-in-protest-to-save-swmiming-pool-from-supermarket-developers.html |title=Sit-in protest to save swmimming pool from supermarket developers |newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=15 April 2011 |date=29 August 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901162826/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6109684/Sit-in-protest-to-save-swmiming-pool-from-supermarket-developers.html |archive-date= 1 September 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8140000/8140784.stm |title=Funds run dry for Sedgemoor Splash |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2010 |date=9 July 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713102941/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8140000/8140784.stm |archive-date=13 July 2009 }}</ref> A new pool was planned as part of the [[Building Schools for the Future]] (BSF) rebuild of [[Chilton Trinity School]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5960 |publisher=Sedgemoor District Council |title=A new swimming pool for Bridgwater and alternative Leisure provision |access-date=9 July 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622003003/http://www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5960 |archive-date=22 June 2011 }}</ref>

The town is both on the route of the [[Samaritans Way South West]] and the [[River Parrett Trail]].