Nowton Park

Overall info: 

This contains information on our mapped areas. Visitors won't see the page as it is, but the info will feed into the views on the Event Areas & Area Overview pages.

If tagged "Next Event" the relevant fields will feed into the Events page &, if also tagged "Front page" onto the panel on the Home page which is set to display the next two events at any one time.

Note: some duplicate copies exist as these were needed once the club ran 2 events in the same area in rapid succession. There are also some for the MapRun events held in the summer, & to add miscellaneous items onto the Events page. These all need to be tagged "NotEventArea" to prevent them going into the Event Areas pages.

 

Description: 

The "Nowton and Hardwick" area on the edge of Bury St Edmunds consists of Nowton Park and Hardwick Heath linked by the intervening complex residential area. Both parks are managed by the local authority and both comprise of deciduous woodlands and areas of grassland, dotted with ponds and other point features. The parks can be used separately for local events or in combination as "Nowton and Hardwick" for Regional events. Because of the more wide-ranging visitor facilities the larger Nowton Park is used as the starting point - and for the off-road shorter courses - for "Nowton and Harwick" events and the previous results for both the combined area, starting from Nowton Park, and for the stand-alone Nowton Park events, are given below.

 

Hardwick Heath has its own overview page here.

Next Event: 

Sunday, 24 March, 2024

Event Type: 

  • Local Event

Next Event Publicity: 

Nowton Park

Sunday 24th March 2024

 

This is a smaller local event at Nowton Park, a beautiful country park with a mix of woodland, meadows and ponds on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds. There will be short and long linear courses as well as a score course on offer, where you must visit as many controls as you can in any order within the specified time.

 

Tags: 

  • Next Event

    Used to feed the next event to the Events page & the front page - needs to be removed once the event is over!