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Posted On 29 Feb 2016
By Grahame Crawshaw
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Course Status
Last checked June 2017. Shoulder high vegetation made it impossible to check post G.
E and T are also sometimes hard to find in undergrowth.
Parts of the area can get very marshy and muddy.

Orienteering map details
A4 Landscape, Scale 1:4000. Last updated 2015.

Start/Finish
The Start/Finish is next to a haha wall, NorthEast of the Hall buildings, about 150m walk from the main car park.
Map detail showing the Start/Finish, Hall buildings, and walks in from the main car park (SE corner) and small car park (W side).

Bramhall Park Start/Finish post

How to get a map
Waterproof print£1.00
Quantity:
PDF file£1.00
Quantity:
Bramhall Hall (on site). Limited opening hours depending on the season. Ring 0845 833 0974 to check.
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 Cafe Picnic areas
NB: Car park is Pay and Display

Directions
Approach from either A5149, Cheadle Hulme south, or A5102, Bramhall north. Manor Road, Carrwood Road and Bramhall Park Road, all lead to the signed entrance on the west side of the park.
OS Grid Reference: SJ 887 863 Nearest Post code: SK7 3NX

Other useful information
Contact Tel: 0161 485 3708
Stockport Council site for Bramhall Hall
Wikipedia entry for Bramhall Hall
DayOutWithTheKids

Course Maintenance
Maintained by Stockport MBC.
Postwatchers, please click [replace id=”inpection_link_cl”] to submit your report.

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Page last updated by John Britton on Friday, June 30, 2017 pm30 16:26 PM

By David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19309125

Bramhall Park is a medium size area of parkland, suitable for beginner orienteering, around the old Hall and its gardens. There's lakes, streams, a good path network and a variety of open areas and woods. Review comments (23/9/16): Bramhall Park is a great little park with a good network of paths. Ideal for beginners. The recently renovated cafe offers good refreshments and the hall is well worth a visit.

Courses available (see Course Colours)
W
White is the easiest level of course, suitable for young beginners. Controls are fairly close together, and usually at path junctions, or junctions of paths and streams or walls; distance is typically 1-1.5km; the best route should be obvious, along paths, and require very few decisions.

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.

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 White course (1.3km, 6 controls) runs clockwise around the two lakes immediately below the Hall, and back through the gardens.

The Yellow course (1.9km, 9 controls) runs anti-clockwise round the Northern edge of the park.

The Orange course (2.9km, 11 controls) runs clockwise around almost everywhere, including the woods South of the Hall.

Course Status
Last checked June 2017. Shoulder high vegetation made it impossible to check post G.
E and T are also sometimes hard to find in undergrowth. Parts of the area can get very marshy and muddy.

Orienteering map details
A4 Landscape, Scale 1:4000. Last updated 2015.

Start/Finish
The Start/Finish is next to a haha wall, NorthEast of the Hall buildings, about 150m walk from the main car park.
Map detail showing the Start/Finish, Hall buildings, and walks in from the main car park (SE corner) and small car park (W side).

Bramhall Park Start/Finish post

How to get a map
Waterproof print£1.00
Quantity:
PDF file£1.00
Quantity:
Bramhall Hall (on site). Limited opening hours depending on the season. Ring 0845 833 0974 to check.
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 Cafe Picnic areas
NB: Car park is Pay and Display

Directions
Approach from either A5149, Cheadle Hulme south, or A5102, Bramhall north. Manor Road, Carrwood Road and Bramhall Park Road, all lead to the signed entrance on the west side of the park.
OS Grid Reference: SJ 887 863 Nearest Post code: SK7 3NX

Other useful information
Contact Tel: 0161 485 3708
Stockport Council site for Bramhall Hall
Wikipedia entry for Bramhall Hall
DayOutWithTheKids

Course Maintenance
Maintained by Stockport MBC.
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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