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Hough End

Posted On 27 Feb 2016
By Dave McCann
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Course Status
Last checked July 2022. Everything OK – though the Southern edge of the map has had some vegetation cut back.
17 November 2020 – the Start/Finish has been moved to be close to the Hough End Leisure Centre car park, and the courses have been redesigned to match.

Orienteering map details
A4 Landscape, Scale 1:5000. Last updated April 2021.

Start/Finish
Park in the Hough End Leisure Centre car park, and the Start/Finish is just past the North end of the main building. Control W, the suggested base for Stars and Loops is a little further into the area.

Hough End Leisure Centre car park (CP), Start/Finish and suggested base for Stars/Loops (SL)

Start/Finish post near the Leisure Centre

How to get a map
Hough End waterproof print£1.75

Hough End waterproof print quantity
Hough End PDF£1.75

Hough End PDF quantity
Or buy any map from Get a Map

Park Facilities
K Car Park d You can ask at the Leisure Centre to use their toilets.

Directions
3 kms North of M60 Jn 5 (restricted exit/entry) adjacent to A5103 (Princess Road). Use the entry to the Hough End Leisure Centre car park off Princess Road, as general public parking is allowed in there.
OS Grid Reference: SJ 837 931 Nearest Post Code: M20 1HD

Other useful information
Contact: 0161 881 9014 (Chorlton Park) or if not available 0161 224 2902 (Central Area)
Friends of Hough End Facebook page
Manchester City Council web site for Hough End Playing Fields
PitchFinder for Hough End Playing Fields
Greater Manchester Police Sports Centre
Wikipedia entry for nearby Hough End Hall

Course Maintenance
Maintained by GMOA
Postwatchers, please click here to submit your report.

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Page last updated by John Britton on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 pm31 21:57 PM

Photo: Beryl Blackhall

Hough End is a medium size park, suitable for all ages of beginner orienteers.

There is a large expanse of playing fields with a more interesting area of patches of woodland in the North of the park.

Courses available (see Course Colours)
Y
Yellow is slightly longer and harder than White. Controls may be further apart, and are placed at junctions or obvious features; distance is typically 1-2.5km; the best route should be relatively obvious, but not necessarily along paths.

O
Orange courses are of medium difficulty and distance, suitable for adult beginners - controls may be 50m from paths, and reading map detail such as contours may be necessary; distance is typically 2-3.5km; you may have several choices of route - some of which may be across terrain rather than along paths.

SL
Star and Loop courses are where the group leader chooses a central base, and sends the students out to collect a single control, or pair of controls, and then return to base. They are particularly suitable for very young beginners.

S
Score courses are where you visit as many controls as you can, in any order you choose, usually within some kind of time limit - or see who can visit all the controls in the shortest time.

The suggested Stars and Loops base, control W, has about a dozen controls close enough to be useful.

The Yellow course (1.3km, 10 controls) and Orange1 course (2.3km, 14 controls) stay in the technically interesting Northern areas.

The Orange2 course (3.0km, 20 controls) adds in a trip round the sports pitches.

Course Status
Last checked July 2022. Everything OK - though the Southern edge of the map has had some vegetation cut back.
17 November 2020 - the Start/Finish has been moved to be close to the Hough End Leisure Centre car park, and the courses have been redesigned to match.

Orienteering map details
A4 Landscape, Scale 1:5000. Last updated April 2021.

Start/Finish
Park in the Hough End Leisure Centre car park, and the Start/Finish is just past the North end of the main building. Control W, the suggested base for Stars and Loops is a little further into the area.
Hough End Leisure Centre car park (CP), Start/Finish and suggested base for Stars/Loops (SL)

Start/Finish post near the Leisure Centre

How to get a map
Hough End waterproof print£1.75

Hough End waterproof print quantity
Hough End PDF£1.75

Hough End PDF quantity
Or buy any map from Get a Map

Park Facilities
K Car Park d You can ask at the Leisure Centre to use their toilets.

Directions
3 kms North of M60 Jn 5 (restricted exit/entry) adjacent to A5103 (Princess Road). Use the entry to the Hough End Leisure Centre car park off Princess Road, as general public parking is allowed in there.
OS Grid Reference: SJ 837 931 Nearest Post Code: M20 1HD

Other useful information
Contact: 0161 881 9014 (Chorlton Park) or if not available 0161 224 2902 (Central Area)
Friends of Hough End Facebook page
Manchester City Council web site for Hough End Playing Fields
PitchFinder for Hough End Playing Fields
Greater Manchester Police Sports Centre
Wikipedia entry for nearby Hough End Hall

Course Maintenance
Maintained by GMOA
Postwatchers, please click here to submit your report.

About us

GMOA is a volunteer organisation which creates and looks after Permanent Orienteering Courses in and around Greater Manchester. Its members come from the two active Orienteering Clubs which cover the area - MDOC (South Manchester) and SELOC (North Manchester).

Address

Email: enquiries@gmoa.org.uk
Phone: 0161 426 0301
Post: GMOA,
28 Turncliff Cres,
Marple,
Stockport,
SK6 6JP

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