Sharpen up your sprint orienteering techniques before taking in the Tour de Yorkshire as it goes from Wakefield to Leeds!
Greenhead Park - Trinity Street, Huddersfield, HD1 4DT
Greenhead Park first opened in September 1884 and was fully restored in 2009-11 which included the bandstand and the refreshment rooms as well allowed the re-introduction of the ornamental lake and boundary railings.
Car Parking: on surrounding streets. Please enter the park at the northern entrance.
Entry fees: Adults £3 Students (with card) & Juniors £1
Course Details:
Course details (subject to final controlling)
Course Controls Length
A 21 2.7 km
B 19 2.1 km
C 17 1.8 km
D 14 1.3 km
Enquiries, download, results and toilets: will be located within the park
Registration: from 10.00 Starts: 10:30 - 12:00 - No allocated start times - open punching start.
Course Closing Time: 13:00 Start and finish adjacent to assembly
Map: 1:2500 5m contours updated 2011 ISSOM standard symbols.
Control Sites: All control sites will be marked with a conventional kite. The SI unit and kite will be attached with a wire gripple.
Electronic punching: SportIdent equipment is being used.
SI Download: After punching the finish control you must download as soon as possible. Hired SI cards will be collected. Should you lose your SI card, or fail to return it, you will be charged the full price of a replacement. SI card hire £1.00 (Juniors 50p)
Results: Results will be on display in the assembly area and via The EPOC web site www.eastpennineoc.org.uk
Drinks: Please bring your own.
Safety: While we have carried out full risk assessments of the competition area and put in place any mitigation of the risks we found, please be aware that you take part at your own risk.
First Aid: Members of EPOC who have completed First Aid training.
Hospitals: Huddersfield Royal Infirmary is just across the road!
The ISSOM forbidden crossing symbol for fences, walls, buildings and vegetation must be adhered to.
Acknowledgements: Friends of Greenhead Park & Kirklees Council
Organiser Alistair Tinto EPOC 07887835702
Planner Paul Taylor EPOC
Then visit Stage Three of the Tour de Yorkshire (Wakefield to Leeds)!
Stage Three will see the peloton make a return to some of the roads raced in the 2014 Yorkshire Grand Départ of the Tour de France, only with a twist.
Starting in Wakefield, riders will travel south to Barnsley before heading to Holmfirth(13.24pm) where they pick up the Grand Depart route in reverse, racing to, Meltham (13.31pm), Slaithwaite (13.45pm) and Ripponden (14.13pm) before riding the iconic Cragg Vale (14.34pm) which in the Tour de France was the country’s longest continual climb and now becomes the longest continual descent! The riders will then make their way to Hebden Bridge, Oxenhope and through the famous cobbled streets of Haworth, one of the most iconic images of the Tour de France in Yorkshire. After a steep climb at Goose Eye the riders will once again see Ilkley, with the famous climb up the Cow & Calf before a sprint point at Arthington and then what is expected to be a hugely popular finish line in Roundhay Park in Leeds.
Road Closures - Most will be rolling road closures lasting no more than an hour, apart from the start and finish lines and some climbs where the road closures will be longer. Road closures will be managed by the police and will be announced nearer the race weekend.
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