Assembly: Main car park, National Trust Lyme, Disley, Stockport SK12 2NR (1.5km along drive from main entrance off A6). w3w.co/aside.reddish.ridiculed

Public transport:  Hourly 199 bus to/from Buxton stops by park entrance, then 2km walk to Assembly.  From Disley train station (Buxton line) it is a 3km walk. 

NT members show card at gate; non NT members tell gate staff you are taking part in this event. Land access fee is included in entry fee for all participating adults (whether NT members or not). 

Location

Nearest town: Disley

• Grid Ref: SJ964823
• Postcode: SK12 2NR
• Latitude: 53.33830
• Longitude: -2.05713
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Directions / Parking

Parking:  1.5km from main entrance off A6.  Please follow drive to the main car park below the hall.  This is shared with other visitors and may be busy.  There is a ParkRun at 9am.  If the car park becomes full, there are additonal parking areas beyond the main car park.

Registration & Start Times

Registration:  From 10.30-12.30 at MDOC tent on grass behind main car park.  Very limited EOD.  Pre-entries open via www.racesignup.co.uk until 18.00 on Friday 24th October. 

Start times from 
11.00 - 13.00

 However, if you expect to take more than an hour, please start no later than 12.30.  Courses close at 2pm. 

The Start is 150m walk from the NT kiosk, with about 20m climb, initially along the main path towards the hall.  The route crosses one road with occasional traffic.

Course Information

Courses: White to Blue, including Very Short Green (see table below for details) 

 

Course	Length	Climb	Controls	Technical Difficulty (1-5)
White	1.2km	35m	10	Elementary (TD1)
Yellow	2.0km	55m	9	Beginner (TD2
Orange	2.8km	85m	11	Improvers (TD3)
Light Green	3.2km	120m	9	Some experience (TD4)
Very Short Green	2.8km	90m	7	Hard (TD5
Short Green	3.4km	95m	9	Hard (TD5
Green	4.3km	125m	9	Hard (TD5
Blue	6.9km	240m	14	Hard (TD5

Explanation of colour courses

• White are very easy with all controls on paths. They are mainly used by 6-10 year olds and family groups.
• Yellow use simple linear features like paths, walls and streams. They are mainly used by under 12’s and family groups.
• Orange progress to basic use of the compass and route choice. They are ideal for novice adults or experienced youngsters.
• Light Green are ideal for improvers as the navigational difficulty begins to increase and uses simple contours and point features.
• Green are used mostly by experienced under 18’s and adults wanting a short but challenging course with a very hard navigational difficulty.
• Blue are a longer, more physically demanding course in comparison to the green. The distances are more varied between controls and the course attracts experienced orienteers.
• Brown & Black are very physically demanding and have a very hard navigational difficulty. They are for experienced orienteers only.
• Score means visiting as many controls as possible in any order in a specific time, like 45mins.

Entry Details

Please pre-enter using the RaceSignUp Registration System. This will guarantee a map is available for you.

 

Entry Fees (including Lyme Park access fees)

 

Standard: 

• Senior: £7.50    Junior/Student: £3.00

MDOC Member: 

Senior: £6.50    Junior/Student: £2.00

 

MDOC Helper: 

• Senior: £3.50    Junior/Student: £0.50

Juniors are under 21 on 31st December.

Terrain Description

Terrain & mapping notes:  Lyme is a mixture of rough grass parkland and high moorland, which is tussocky in parts, with rock detail from former quarry workings.  The park also has several areas of mixed woodland with patches of rhododendron and steep stream valleys. The shortest courses will stay on the grassy promontory known as Cage Hill but competitors on the longest courses should also expect to cross moorland, woods and valleys

Map:  Scale:  Courses White, Yellow & Orange: 1:5000.  Other courses: 1:10000. 

 Drainage work has taken place on the open moorland around several of the bigger streams.  Consequently, there are temporary access tracks in places which have not been mapped.  On Cage Hill there are numerous saplings with small fences around them.  These are not mapped.  Big trees and dead trees are mapped.  Some trees in Lantern Wood are being felled, so there is a lot of wood on the ground.  Courses that go in the wood have been planned to avoid the worst of the forestry work. 

Crossing points:  Walls must only be crossed at marked crossing points.  Fences without the purple line on them may be crossed but may not gain you much.  Fences with a purple line on them must not be crossed. 

Timing system:  SportIdent (SI).  Competitors without an SI ‘dibber’ to record their course can borrow one at Registration.  Controls will be SIAC enabled for competitors with their own contactless SI cards.  All competitors must punch the Start and Finish controls. 

Facilities

Toilets / Café:  At the Timber Yard, about 250m from the main car park. 

Dogs allowed?

No dogs on courses but National Trust welcomes dogs and their owners. Local signage for on and off-lead areas must be followed by participants and suporters

Contacts / Officials

Organiser: Marie Roberts MDOC

Planner: David McCann MDOC 

Series Co-ordinator: Chris Rostron

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