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Tandle Hill Country Park

Posted On 4 Feb 2016
By John Britton
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Course Status
Last checked June 2022. Everything OK, except post Q is out of the ground and lying down.
nb. April 2022 – post J has been moved a few metres East to a better site in the middle of the three gullies, but the bridge below it is broken.
It looks like rabbits are making a home under post V.

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 April 2022.
Tandle Hill East – A4 portrait, Scale 1:2500. Last updated April 2022.

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
Tandle Hill Country Park waterproof print£1.50

Tandle Hill Country Park waterproof print quantity
Tandle Hill Country Park PDF£1.50

Tandle Hill Country Park PDF quantity
Tandle Hill East waterproof print£0.75

Tandle Hill East waterproof print quantity
Tandle Hill East PDF£0.75

Tandle Hill East PDF quantity
Or buy any map from Get a Map

Park Facilities
- K Car Park d Toilets Café z Playground X Picnic area
- - 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 5UX
  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, supported by Oldham Council
  - Postwatchers, please click here to submit your report.

Oldham

Page last updated by John Britton on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 23:35 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: 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! 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 June 2022. Everything OK, except post Q is out of the ground and lying down.
nb. April 2022 - post J has been moved a few metres East to a better site in the middle of the three gullies, but the bridge below it is broken.
It looks like rabbits are making a home under post V.

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 April 2022.
Tandle Hill East - A4 portrait, Scale 1:2500. Last updated April 2022.

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
Tandle Hill Country Park waterproof print£1.50

Tandle Hill Country Park waterproof print quantity
Tandle Hill Country Park PDF£1.50

Tandle Hill Country Park PDF quantity
Tandle Hill East waterproof print£0.75

Tandle Hill East waterproof print quantity
Tandle Hill East PDF£0.75

Tandle Hill East PDF quantity
Or buy any map from Get a Map

Park Facilities
- K Car Park d Toilets Café z Playground X Picnic area
- - 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 5UX
  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, supported by Oldham Council
  - 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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