Dovestone Map | Orienteering

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Course Status
New! You can now record your run using the MapRun App on your Smartphone. Score points and share your results too. See the Smartphones page for details.
NB: work on the dam and car park is complete and everything is fully open again.
Last checked March 2019. Everything OK. The fence line North of X is no longer exactly as mapped.
Watch out for shooting parties that may restrict access in some parts
Previous notes … the undergrowth is again causing problems, with several posts, Y and H especially, to a lesser extent DD and N, proving difficult to find in the ferns. Also, we discovered that the circle for post Y was quite significantly misplaced, and this has now been fixed.
On the Trail O course all posts were visible at 1, 4, 5, 7, 10 & 12; 2 posts visible at 2 and 6; 1 post visible at 8 & 9; no posts visible at 3 & 11.
(NB. May 2017: post P moved away from unpleasant litter; post EE moved away from bracken; post BB moved to below the fence. The old posts have been left in place, so old maps will still work for a while.)

Orienteering and Trail-O map details
Orienteering map – A4 portrait, Scale 1:10000. Last updated April 2017, to reflect work around Binn Green and rhododhendron clearances, and January 2018 with a new path.
Trail-O map – A4 portrait, Scale 1:6000. Created 1999, last updated 2012.

Start/Finish
Start S1 is about 500m SouthEast of the Car Park, along the road past the Sailing Club.
Start S2 is about 200m North of the car Park, across the dam.
The stated Trail-O distance includes these extras, but the Wheelchair/White does not.
Some courses finish at the other Start. eg. Blue and Wheelchair/White start at S1 and finish at S2; Green starts at S2 and finishes at S1.
The Trail-O course first control is at Start S1. If you want to check your Trail-O answers, you can get them from the Downloads page.
Map detail showing both Starts, car park and Sailing Club.

Start 2 on the end of the fence

Start 1 on the bridge

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Steps at Binn Green

Alderman Crag from post V

‘Plughole’ overflow in winter, Dovestone

Directions
From Ashton-u-Lyne, take A635 (Huddersfield) to Greenfield. From mini roundabout at E side of Greenfield continue 700m along A635 to R fork on to reservoir road to reach car park.
OS Grid Reference: SE 013 033. Postcode OL3 7NE gets you to the Sailing Club via the main car park. (Postcode OL3 7NN gets you to the Binn Green car park – halfway up the West side of the map)

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