Event Details

Entry: Open via The Start Kite.
Student/unwaged discount code: R103
Enter 3 days before the event to guarantee a map. Pay the entry fee to The Start Kite (account details will be displayed on screen when you confirm your entry).
Late entries and Entry on the Day: This is possible via The Start Kite depending on map availability. No cash entry on the day.

Parking : Beacon Hill lower car park.
Take a ticket (or to) at the barrier and pay before exit at the machine. The parking fees are:
Up to 1 hour – £2.50
Up to 2 hours – £4.00
Up to 3 hours – £5.00
Over 3 hours – £5.50
Note: Card payments are very slow, but cash is fast.

Start and Finish: close to car park.

Terrain: Open hillside with rock features and mixed of woodland with variable runnability.
- There is significant thinning and other changes to vegetation throughout the entire area. Few controls use vegetation features as sites, and no legs rely on vegetation information.
- Some parts have enthusiastic growth of new nettles and bracken; courses avoid the worst of it. .
- On the open hill there are LARGE IMPASSABLE cliffs. There are NO controls on crags or cliffs. Stay away from them. They are not taped.

Out of Bounds: There is an out of bounds field in the middle of the map - this MUST NOT BE ENTERED. All courses go around it.
There are some deep ponds - these are fenced off and must not be entered.
Walls: Do not cross walls - there's no leg on any course where that gives you an advantage. Use crossing points.
Some stone walls now have parallel barbed wire fences to protect them. These barbed wire fences are NOT mapped - be careful. (This does not affect the short course).

Map Symbols: The control description symbol for rootstock (circle with a diagonal cross inside) is shown on the map as a hollow brown triangle.
- On the hill, single trees are sometimes shown as white 'runnable'. Some pairs or triples of single trees are sometimes shown as a single tree. Some areas are shown as semi-open.
- The circle size for single trees is typically related to canopy area rather than trunk width or height. .

Latest routegadget map: Nov 2025

Control Collection: Volunteers willing to collect in a few controls each after the courses close would be much appreciated.

Safety: A risk assessment has been carried out by the Organiser and all reasonable care has been taken to ensure the safety of competitors. However, participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event.
Please note: BEWARE of, and be courteous to, horses, horse-riders, bikes, cyclists, dogs, people with dogs, people without dogs, small/young people, and any other users of the park.

Summer League: The 2026 LEI Summer League consists of 18 events taking place from April to August.. They include urban, parks and woodland events. See Summer League for the full list of fixtures and points system.

Next Summer League Event: on Thursday 21st May at Outwoods.