Maps & areas
Possible venues
The following is a list of areas with good quality terrain with the potential to host a course.
Please let Jeff Pakes know (see contacts page) if you would like to get involved in this process of planning a course.
Maps have in most cases been sourced from the freely available Open Orienteering Maps
Taunton
The county town has been used as a testing ground for MapRun in Somerset. It benefits from extensive and detailed mapping in OCAD.
| Side | Area [click for info], (event centre: day/evening) | Details / map / scale |
|---|---|---|
| NW | Longrun Meadow & environs (L'run Barn / COACH / Tesco cafe till 18.00) | OCAD |
| NW | Roughmoor & Longrun (Park and Ride) | OCAD 1:5k |
| NW | Chip Lane / Longrun (various) | OOM 1:5k |
| N | North Lyngford & Priorswood (Lyngford shopping precinct/ the O'bridge pub) | OOM 1:7.5k OOM 1:7.5k |
| N | Pyrland (Wellsprings Centre cafe / Taunton Green) | OCAD 1:5k |
| NE | Monkton Heathfield (the Merry Monk) | OOM 1:5k |
| C | Central Wilton (Vivary Park / Vivary Arms) | OCAD 1:5k |
| SW | South West Queens College & Comeytrowe / (Tesco Express / the Shepherd's Rest) | OCAD 1:7.5k |
| SE | South East Dowslands, Holway, Blackbrook, Halcon & Hankridge / (Hamilton Park, Tesco Express, Blackbrook Pavilion- daytime only-, King's College, The Flying Horse) | OOM 1:10k |
| SE | Blackbrook with North Holway | OCAD 1:5k |
| SE | Holway & Blackbrook Holway to Lambrook | OOM 1:5k OOM 1:7.5k |
Elsewhere
| Area | Area [click for info], (event centre: day/ evening) | Details / map / scale |
|---|---|---|
| Bridgwater | Bower Manor (Bower Inn) | Map 1:5k |
| Burnham-on-sea | Whole town (Rosewood or Dunstan House Inn) | Map 1:10k |
| Cotford St Luke | Whole village (The Chapel) | Map 1:5k |
| Cullompton | Centre (Pony & Trap, Weary Traveller) | Map 1:5k |
| Shepton Mallet | Whole town | Map 1:5k ** |
| Street | Whole town (Wetherspoons or the Two Brewers) | Map 1:5k |
| Tiverton | Whole town (Whiteball Inn or the Half Moon) | Map 1:10k |
| Wellington | Town centre & environs (Wetherspoons?) | Map 1:7.5k Map 1:5k |
| Weston-S-Mare | North East / Castle Batch (the Observatory, Ebdon or Tesco Worle Express | Map 1:10k * |
| Yeovil | North West (the Forum/ the Arrow) | Map 1:7.5k |
| Yeovil | North East (The Great Lyde) | Map 1:7.5k |
* General area believed to have been used by Bristol OK. Possibility for a collaboration