{"id":20606,"date":"2026-01-19T19:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=20606"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:05:23","slug":"brenda-sherratt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=20606","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Sherratt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20616\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brenda_sherratt_clean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20616 size-medium\" title=\"Brenda Sherratt completing a long distance swim\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brenda_sherratt_clean-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Sherratt completing a long distance swim\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brenda_sherratt_clean-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brenda_sherratt_clean.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Sherratt completing a long distance swim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Bollington long distance swimmer Brenda Sherratt<\/strong> was the first person to swim the length of Loch Ness in Scotland, a distance of 22.5 miles on 26-28 July 1966. She was just 18 years of age. By that time she was already a very well practiced open water swimmer. She had swum Bala Lake in Wales, Lake Coniston &#8211; along its length, and both ways in one swim across its width &#8211; and Lake Windermere, both in the Lake District. Loch Ness took 31 hours 41 minutes! These achievements earned her induction into the <a title=\"International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openwaterpedia.com\/wiki\/International_Marathon_Swimming_Hall_of_Fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">&nbsp;in 1970 as an&nbsp;<a title=\"Honour Swimmer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openwaterpedia.com\/wiki\/Honour_Swimmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honour Swimmer<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda coached swimmers for almost 40 years, as well as being active with the Cub Scouts. She was married to Tim Capper and lived in Congleton. She died on 18th October 2025 aged 77.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1767251256849727\/posts\/4211545785753583\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook post plus lovely comments after her death was announced<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">.<\/p>\n<p>Picture by courtesy of Malcolm Sherratt.<br \/>\n(Click for larger picture)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollington long distance swimmer Brenda Sherratt was the first person to swim the length of Loch Ness in Scotland, a distance of 22.5 miles on 26-28 July 1966. She was just 18 years of age. By that time she was already a very well practiced open water swimmer. She had swum Bala Lake in Wales, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":4168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20606"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20618,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20606\/revisions\/20618"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}