Swimmers at a Broads beauty spot have been warned to avoid the water due to safety concerns.

A Chegrave Parish Council meeting earlier this month heard that there has been an increase in young people swimming at Pyes Mill and Chedgrave Moorings on the River Chet, near Loddon.

The parish warned that those river stretches are a "navigational channel" of a tidal river and pose a "real risk of accident or drowning".

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Its statement, shared on Facebook, added "concerns about sewage discharge into the river", concluding: "please remind your youngsters not to swim in the River Chet".

Pye's Mill and Chedgrave Moorings pictured at the fall of duskPyes Mill and Chedgrave Moorings pictured at the fall of dusk (Image: Eleanor Storey)

Pyes Mill's name derives from the post mill that stood south of the moorings on Mill Road.

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The moorings are set in a lightly wooded area with picnic benches and barbeque stands.

The former mill dates back to the 17th century with records saying that in April 1814 a man called Edmund Woolterton bought it for £630.

The mill began life with common sails, but in later days the two pairs of French burr stones were powered by four double-shuttered sails with six bays of three shutters and a single bay of two shutters at the inner and outer extremities of each sail.

Pye's Mill and Chedgrave Moorings pictured on a frosty winter morning Pyes Mill and Chedgrave Moorings pictured on a frosty winter morning (Image: Eleanor Storey)