BNOC 2026 Egypt Woods

Saturday 07 February 2026

Egypt Jennings Wood , Harehatch Lane, Slough

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Welcome

Welcome to the 2026 British Night Orienteering Championships, a Major event.

More details will be added to this page as they become available, until by 1 Feb 2026 the page becomes final details. Any changes after that will be marked in red and summarised here; for critical changes all entrants will be informed by email. Note you can print this page using the blue button above or below.

Beginners

We welcome beginners at almost all of our events, but not this one! There are no courses of lower than the highest technical difficulty achievable on the area, and at night things are worse.

Location

Egypt Woods, near Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire.

Parking

Harehatch Lane, Egypt, nearest postcode SL1 8PQ, OS Grid reference SU948872, What3words care.punks.cone.

Public Transport

Burnham and Beaconsfield stations are each about 5.5km away

Terrain

Egypt Woods is a mixed commercial woodland on either side of a broad valley. It is mostly very runnable, though with bracken and brashings in some areas. There are relatively few paths and at night many will be less distinct.

The later part of courses will be in Hangings Wood and Jennings Wood, which are steeper sided, with a narrow field separating the two.

Map

Pre-marked maps for all courses on waterproof paper. For a previous event see Routegadget.

Control descriptions will be on the map, there are no loose descriptions.

Course Timing

Sportident punching will be used. SIAC will be enabled for those with ‘contactless’ dibbers.

Facilities

TBA

Dogs

Sorry but no dogs allowed in either the car park or Egypt Woods.

Safety

Orienteering is an adventure sport. You take part at your own risk and are responsible for your own safety. A full risk assessment has been carried out.

The small print

This event is registered with British Orienteering, number 83894.

Orienteering is a great sport for youngsters. If you bring children, please help us to keep to our safeguarding policy and British Orienteering’s photography policy.

Your personal data is used for results and insurance, see our privacy policy.

Courses

All classes and estimated winning times as for British Night Orienteering Championships rules section 5.

Course Notes

TBA

Starts

Timed start. There will be facilities for late starts but restricted given the short start window.

Courses close 22:00

Entry & Fees

Entry only via  SI Entries. You must enter on line.

Fees are expected to be of the order of £30 for senior members. A £5 discount is offered for people entering both the Saturday and Sunday events.

Results

Interim results will be published direct to the club website every few minutes during the event. There will be no printed results (apart from your own splits) or WiFi available.

Full results will be published to the same location and to Routegadget; we aim to do so on the day of the event.

Officials

The team (HH unless stated):

  • Weekend Organisers Mike Bennett entries@herts-orienteering.club and Alan Rosen
  • Planners Alan Rosen and Helen Marsden
  • Controller Neil Crickmore SO
  • Safety Hedley Calderbank
  • Mapper Simon Errington
  • Finance Ben Bardsley
  • Procurement Dave Tookey
  • Permissions Neil Gostick
  • SI Kevin and Laura Parkes
  • Starts Ronan and Julie Cleary LOK/HH
  • Prizegiving Hannah Nesbit