Cassiobury GLOSS
Our event in the Greater London Orienteering Summer Series (GLOSS) which runs on Sundays from 25 June to 23 July. It’s suitable for all levels of experience, including beginners.
Map reservation: You can save paper form-filling on the day by pre-registering online to reserve your mapper (and hire-dibber if you need one). Then just turn up at registration and tell them who you are and pay the entry fee…
| Terrain | Runnable parkland with some wooded areas, some with significant undergrowth. Full leg and torso cover required. | ||||||||||||
| Parking | The event centre is located at the Fullerians Rugby Club, Coningesby Drive, Watford, WD17 3PB. OS grid ref: TQ 089 977 Approach via Langley Way. See Google Maps Parking charge £2 per vehicle. |
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| Public Transport | Watford Junction station 2.4km, Watford Metropolitan station 1.8km. From Watford Met please follow the path directly across the park in a NNE direction to Parkside Drive to avoid the competition area. | ||||||||||||
| Courses |
Course lengths provisional. |
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| Starts | Register from 09:45 to 11:30 or visit http://sat.maptypes.org to reserve map/dibber. Starts from 10:00 – 11:30. Courses close at 12:30.Start and Finish ~600m from event centre. |
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| Fees | Non-members: Adults £6, Juniors £3 BOF members: Adults £4, Juniors £1 Adults accompanying juniors are free. |
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| Punching | Sportident punching will be used. Dibber hire £1.00. Charge for lost dibbers £30 |
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| Map | 1:10000 with 5m contours, updated for this event. Note that the major works that were taking place during the last event here are now formally complete but there may be some contractors’ equipment remaining.
Avoid all areas marked out of bounds, including the new children’s playground and pool areas. Areas marked with the purple out of bounds symbol are recently sown grass, they are marked with temporary plastic fencing but those fences are not shown on the map. The golf course to the west of the map is out of bounds. |
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| Facilities | Toilets in event centre. The ones near the start & finish were demolished at the end of June. | ||||||||||||
| Dogs | Dogs permitted, but must be kept under control at all times and NOT ALLOWED ON THE RUGBY PITCHES at the event centre. | ||||||||||||
| Safety | The river and canal are deep; the river can be very muddy and the canal carries barge traffic. Use bridges – marked as crossing points on the map – to cross all bodies of water shown with a black border.
Please show respect to other users of the park. Orienteering is an adventure sport. You take part at your own risk and are responsible for your own safety. |
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