Mapped Areas
All the areas we have mapped for orienteering. Select a flag to show its details, or select a map name from the dropdown menu below the map to highlight its location.
Note: Possession or existence of a map does not imply right of access for orienteering or for any other purpose. Permission must be obtained from the landowner.
| Map name | Near | Terrain | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aisholt Common | Aisholt | Mixed: mainly semi-open with scattered trees | 1:10000 |
| Ash Priors | Bishops Lydeard | Wood and open | 1:2500 |
| Ashley Combe & Great Bear | Nether Stowey | Wood and semi-open | 1:10000 |
| Blackborough North | Blackborough | Plateau with wood and semi-open | 1:7500 |
| Blackborough South | Blackborough | Plateau with wood and open | 1:7500 |
| Blackbrook & Holway North | Taunton | Urban and parkland | 1:5000 |
| Broomfield Hill | Bridgwater | Semi-open and wood | 1:5000 |
| Buckland Wood & Quants | Wellington | Wood | 1:7500 |
| Castle Neroche | Staple Fitzpaine | Wood with complex contours | 1:7500 |
| Castle School, BAT College & environs | Taunton | College grounds & urban | 1:5000 |
| Cockercombe | Aisholt | Steep coniferous woodland with clearings | 1:10,000 |
| Cothelstone Hill | Kingston St Mary | Open hilltop with wooded slopes | 1:7500 |
| Crowcombe Heathfield & Rexton Gorse | Taunton | Wood and semi-open | 1:10000 |
| Croydon Hill | Dunster | Wood | 1:10000 |
| Croydon Hill Deer Park | Dunster | Mixed open and woodland | 1:10000 |
| Culm Davy & Culmstock Beacon | Wellington | Wood and semi-open hill top | 1:7500 |
| Dartmoor North | Belstone, Dartmoor | Open moorland | 1:25000 |
| Doone Country | Malmsmead | Open moorland with some partially wooded valleys | 1:20000 |
| Dunkery & Wilmersham | Exford | Open moorland and hilltop | 1:20000 tbc |
| Exmoor South | Simonsbath | Open moorland | 1:20000 tbc |
| French Weir Park to Goodland Gardens | Taunton | Riverside parkland & streets | 1:3,000 |
| Fyne Court & Broomfield Common | Kingston St Mary | Landscaped parkland and woods | 1:5000 |
| Galmington & Comeytrowe | Taunton | Residential streets & parkland on the favoured South West side of Taunton. | 1:7,500 |
| Great Bear | Deciduous Forest, ascending to Dowsborough Fort | 1:10000 | |
| Great Breach Wood & Combe Hill | Street | Wood and open hill side | 1:7500 |
| Great Headon & Wootton Common | Minehead | Wood | 1:15000 |
| Ham Hill | Yeovil | Quarried parkland | 1:5000 |
| Hart Hill & Florey Down | Nether Stowey | Wood | 1:10000 |
| Henlade Woods | Taunton | Hilltop wood with open parkland | 1:3000 |
| Holway & Blackbrook | Taunton | Urban and parkland | 1:5000 |
| Horner Wood | Porlock | Wood | 1:20000 |
| Huish Woods | Taunton | Wood | 1:2500 |
| Kings Cliff | North Petherton | Wood | 1:7500 |
| King's College & environs | Taunton | College grounds | 1:4000 |
| King's Hall | Taunton | College grounds | 1:3000 |
| Ladies Wood | Nether Stowey | Wood | 1:15000 |
| Longrun Meadow | Taunton | Mixed open parkland | 1:5000 |
| Lydeard Hill | Nether Stowey | Open moorland with wood | 1:5000 |
| Malmsmead Hill & Brendon Common | Malmsmead | Open moorland | 1:20000 |
| Netherclay Woods | Taunton | Park and wood | 1:2000 |
| Ninesprings | Yeovil | Wood and parkland | 1:3000 |
| Norton Manor Camp | Taunton | Wood and campus | TBA |
| Orchard Portman | Taunton | Wood | 1:5000 |
| Pinkery | Simonsbath, Exmoor | Open moorland | 1:20000 |
| Priors Park | Taunton | Wood with complex contours | 1:7500 |
| Pyrland & Taunton Green | Taunton | Urban and parkland | 1:5000 |
| Queens College & Comeytrowe | Taunton | College grounds & urban | 1:5000 |
| Quantock West (incl St Audries) | West Quantoxhead | Open moorland with wood | 1:20000 |
| Ramscombe | Nether Stowey | Wood | 1:10000 |
| Roughmoor & Silk Mills Nature Reserve | Taunton | Mixed open and woodland | 1:5000 |
| St Audries & West Quantoxhead | West Quantoxhead | Open moorland with wooded coombes | 1:10000 |
| The Spinney | Kingston St Mary | Small wood and ornamental gardens | 1:1250 |
| Staple Common | Staple Fitzpaine | Semi-open and wood | 1:7500 |
| Staple Hill | Staple Fitzpaine | Semi-open and wood | 1:7500 |
| Taunton North | Taunton | Urban with parkland | 1:7500 |
| Taunton School | Taunton | College grounds | 1:2500 |
| Thurlbear Wood | Taunton | Wood | 1:5000 |
| Tiverton | Tiverton | Urban | 1:7500 |
| Triscombe Stone | Nether Stowey | Open moorland with wood | 1:10000 |
| Twenty Acre Plantation | Cothelstone | Wood with some rough open | 1:5000 |
| Wilton, Vivary Park | Taunton | Park, residential streets & fields | 1:5000 |
| Wellington East | Wellington | Urban | 1:5000 |
| Wellington School | Wellington | College grounds | 1:2000 |
| Wilmot's Pool | Crowcombe nr Taunton | Open moorland | 1:5000 |
| Wind Down | Bridgwater | Wood | 1:5000 |
| Willett Hill | Wivlescombe | Wood | 1:5000 |
| Yeovil Abbey Manor | Yeovil | Urban | 1:5000 |
| Yeovil Lyde | Yeovil | Urban | 1:5,000 |
| Young Wood | Taunton | Wood | 1:7500 |