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Posted On 27 Feb 2016
By Dave McCann
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Course Status
Last checked February 2019. Everything OK … but Aug 5 2019 – a user reports that post U has been pulled out of the ground and is lying down nearby.

Orienteering map details
A4 Landscape, Scale 1:5000. Last updated December 2016.

Start/Finish
There is room for a few cars on the side of Mauldeth Road. The Start/Finish is on the field side of a group of trees about 150m from this “car park”. Control Z, the suggested base for Stars and Loops is similarly close.
Hough End “car park” (CP), Start/Finish and suggested base for Stars/Loops (SL)

Hough End Start/Finish post

- How to get a map

Hough End waterproof print£1.75

Hough End PDF£1.75

Or buy any map from Get a Map
Or order any map by post by downloading the Map order form

Park Facilities
None (unless the general public are welcome to access the new Leisure Centre).

Directions
3 kms North of M60 Jn 5 (restricted exit/entry) adjacent to A5103. Main entry off Mauldeth Road West, Chorlton-cum-Hardy M21 7RF, where a couple of cars can park by the gate.
OS Grid Reference: SJ 833 936 Nearest Post Code: M21 7RF

Other useful information
Contact: 0161 881 9014 (Chorlton Park) or if not available 0161 224 2902 (Central Area)
Friends of Hough End
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
Manchester City Council site for nearby Hough End Leisure Centre
Wikipedia entry for nearby Hough End Hall

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

Manchester

Page last updated by John Britton on Monday, August 12, 2019 pm31 13:35 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.

R
Red, or Long Orange, is the same intermediate standard as Orange, but is longer - typically 3.5-6km.

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 Z, has about a dozen controls close enough to be useful.

The Yellow course (1km, 8 controls) and Orange course (2.7km, 14 controls) stay in the technically interesting Northern areas.

The Red course (4.4km, 16 controls) adds in a trip some of the way round the sports pitches and back again.

Course Status
Last checked February 2019. Everything OK ... but Aug 5 2019 - a user reports that post U has been pulled out of the ground and is lying down nearby.

Orienteering map details
A4 Landscape, Scale 1:5000. Last updated December 2016.

Start/Finish
There is room for a few cars on the side of Mauldeth Road. The Start/Finish is on the field side of a group of trees about 150m from this "car park". Control Z, the suggested base for Stars and Loops is similarly close.
Hough End "car park" (CP), Start/Finish and suggested base for Stars/Loops (SL)

Hough End Start/Finish post

- How to get a map

Hough End waterproof print£1.75

Hough End PDF£1.75

Or buy any map from Get a Map
Or order any map by post by downloading the Map order form

Park Facilities
None (unless the general public are welcome to access the new Leisure Centre).

Directions
3 kms North of M60 Jn 5 (restricted exit/entry) adjacent to A5103. Main entry off Mauldeth Road West, Chorlton-cum-Hardy M21 7RF, where a couple of cars can park by the gate.
OS Grid Reference: SJ 833 936 Nearest Post Code: M21 7RF

Other useful information
Contact: 0161 881 9014 (Chorlton Park) or if not available 0161 224 2902 (Central Area)
Friends of Hough End
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
Manchester City Council site for nearby Hough End Leisure Centre
Wikipedia entry for nearby Hough End Hall

Course Maintenance
Maintained by Manchester CC.
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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