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Tandle Hill Country Park

Posted On 4 Feb 2016
By John Britton
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Course Status
Last checked February 2018. Everything OK.

Orienteering map details
There are two orienteering maps, the main Tandle Hill map, and a partial blown-up map of the SE part – Tandle Hill East – to support young beginner exercises.
Tandle Hill – A4 landscape, Scale 1:5000. Last updated 2014.
Tandle Hill East – A4 portrait, Scale 1:2500. Last updated 2012.

Start/Finish
The Start is at the park entrance at the SW end of the car park. The toilets and cafe/information building is just inside the park to the right.
Tandle Hill car park, Start, and toilets

Start/Finish post adjacent to car park

How to get a map
Waterproof print£1.50
Quantity:
PDF file£1.50
Quantity:
Tandle Hill East waterproof print£0.75
Quantity:
Tandle Hill East PDF file£0.75
Quantity:
From some Oldham Countryside Centres
Site Visitor Centre – Tel: 0161 627 2608
Brownhill Countryside Centre – Tel: 0145 787 2598
Saddleworth Museum Shop – Tel: 0145 787 0336
From the Cafe/Visitor Centre
Or buy any map from Get a Map
Or order any map by post by downloading the Map order form
- Park Facilities
- K Car Park d Toilets Café
- - Directions
  - From M60(J20) follow A627(M) S for 1m and take slip road to Oldham. At roundabout take first exit on to A663 (Broadway) and follow for 3/4 mile to traffic lights. Follow A671 (Rochdale) for 1.5 miles and turn L on to Tandle Hill Road (500m beyond overhead power line). Park is signed.
  - OS Grid Reference: SD 907 088. Postcode: OL2 5U
    The ‘mountain glide’ area!
    
    Wonderful mossy area on the wooded hillside
    
    Ongoing work in the beech woodland
    - - Other useful information
      - Ranger Tel: 0161 627 2608
      - Oldham Council web site for Tandle Hill
      - Wikipedia entry for Tandle Hill
Course Maintenance
Maintained by GMOA.
Postwatchers, please click [replace id=”inpection_link_cl”] to submit your report.

Oldham

Page last updated by John Britton on Sunday, March 4, 2018 19:51 PM

Beech woodland, on the way to the monument on a wintry day.

Tandle Hill is a mostly-wooded hilly area with a deep central valley, suitable for beginner orienteering. The smaller map area is especially suitable for young beginners. Review comments (12/9/16): A great park, famous for its steep wooded hillsides! Visit for the picnics and playgrounds in spring and summer, the changing of the leaves in the beech woodland in autumn and sledging in winter! Orienteering maps are available all year round from the café/visitor centre and the staff are available to point you in the right direction! Enjoy also the climb to the monument (take the path from near post D) for views over the whole of Greater Manchester.

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.

For the main map, courses are Yellow 1 (1km, 6 controls), Yellow 2 (1.5km, 7 controls), Orange (2.2km, 8 controls) and Red (3.1km, 12 controls).

Both Yellows stay in the main valley; Orange is a wider loop, and Red goes round most of the perimeter.

For the Tandle Hill East map, there are simply 15 controls, to be combined as stars/loops/score however you want.

Course Status
Last checked February 2018. Everything OK.

Orienteering map details
There are two orienteering maps, the main Tandle Hill map, and a partial blown-up map of the SE part - Tandle Hill East - to support young beginner exercises.
Tandle Hill - A4 landscape, Scale 1:5000. Last updated 2014.
Tandle Hill East - A4 portrait, Scale 1:2500. Last updated 2012.

Start/Finish
The Start is at the park entrance at the SW end of the car park. The toilets and cafe/information building is just inside the park to the right.
Tandle Hill car park, Start, and toilets

Start/Finish post adjacent to car park

How to get a map
Waterproof print£1.50
Quantity:
PDF file£1.50
Quantity:
Tandle Hill East waterproof print£0.75
Quantity:
Tandle Hill East PDF file£0.75
Quantity:
From some Oldham Countryside Centres
Site Visitor Centre – Tel: 0161 627 2608 Brownhill Countryside Centre – Tel: 0145 787 2598 Saddleworth Museum Shop – Tel: 0145 787 0336
From the Cafe/Visitor Centre
Or buy any map from Get a Map
Or order any map by post by downloading the Map order form
- Park Facilities
- K Car Park d Toilets Café
- - Directions
  - From M60(J20) follow A627(M) S for 1m and take slip road to Oldham. At roundabout take first exit on to A663 (Broadway) and follow for 3/4 mile to traffic lights. Follow A671 (Rochdale) for 1.5 miles and turn L on to Tandle Hill Road (500m beyond overhead power line). Park is signed.
  - OS Grid Reference: SD 907 088. Postcode: OL2 5U
    The 'mountain glide' area!
    
    Wonderful mossy area on the wooded hillside
    
    Ongoing work in the beech woodland
    - - Other useful information
      - Ranger Tel: 0161 627 2608
      - Oldham Council web site for Tandle Hill
      - Wikipedia entry for Tandle Hill
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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