This newly-mapped area covers SE Thetford and a section of Barnham Cross Common to the west of the A134. The urban area is primarily dense estate housing broken up by numerous alleyways and areas of green space. The small size of the blocks of housing and their irregular pattern make for an abundance of map detail and lots of navigational decision points. The adjacent common is made up of a combination of open areas, scattered bushes and small copses which provide a contrasting navigational challenge.

Suitable for smaller events.

A combination of small patches of wood and grassland with footpaths, giving a long but rather narrow area along the line of Belstead Brook to the south of Ipswich. Adjoins the Bourne Park map.

Suitable for smaller events.

A combination of the paths over the water meadows alongside the River Gipping west of Ipswich, a small but very complex (and steep) piece of woodland and the paths and streets of Bramford village.

Suitable for smaller events.

The historic market town of Bury St Edmunds has plenty of variety for urban orienteering: the older town centre with its market square contrasting with the modern 'The Arc' shopping centre, the Abbey Gardens & ruins of the original abbey alongside St Edmundsbury Cathedral, the interconnecting streets, alleys & pathways, the residential & industrial estates - and with the rivers Lark & Linnet weaving through the centre.

Christchurch Park is a large municipal park in the centre of Ipswich and contains a mixture of parkland with mature trees, formal gardens and an arboretum containing trees planted by each mayor of the town, a tradition dating from Victorian times. The mixture of features, plus its accessibility from the centre of Ipswich, makes it ideal for smaller fixtures such as our Simon Peck Summer Series and our Sport England-sponsored Ipswich-O events.

Culford School is set in 480 acres of beautiful Suffolk parkland with an 18th century mansion at its centre. In addition to the extensive parkland, the grounds contain woodland, shrubberies, a lake and complex areas of school buildings and sports facilities.

The mapped area offers good opportunities for sprint-style courses.

This map is in two sections, the private grounds of a school and a small patch of very "runnable" woodland, connected via paths across a golf course.

Suitable for smaller events.

The area is a stretch of beach, cliff and warren off Corton Road on the northern outskirts of Lowestoft.  There are low sand dunes and cliff faces covered with scrub, bracken and gorse, together with a multitude of small paths on the clifftop, and more open areas beyond.  The presence of contours plus several interesting features provides good exercise for a small event.

An area of mixed woodland and open parkland on a private estate between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. It has a wealth of detail (including water features) and an excellent path network.

Suitable for smaller events.

This consists of a municipal park and a public open space in the centre of Ipswich. There is a mixture of parkland with mature trees, a wooded scarp slope, and large, undulating grassy areas, together with a good path network and numerous point features.

The mixture of features, plus its accessibility and visitor facilities, makes it ideal for smaller fixtures such as our Simon Peck Summer Series and our Sport England-sponsored Ipswich-O events.

The private grounds of Ipswich High School at Woolverstone have been mapped by the club in 2015. Use for orienteering is strictly by permission of the school.

The grounds comprise extensive parkland and formal gardens with fine views across the River Orwell, together with a valley of mixed woodland and some complex areas of school buildings.

The map offers good opportunities for sprint style courses and training events.

This is an urban map of a typical, very flat, suburban housing estate at Kesgave. It has a good off-road path network and several public open spaces.

Suitable for smaller events.

Knettishall Heath is one of the club’s longest standing and most popular areas and has staged many colour-coded events. It contains an interesting variety of "runnable" mixed woodland and open heathlands sloping down to the River Ouse between Diss and Thetford. There is plenty of vegetation detail and a good path network. The numerous surface features include shallow pits from chalk & gravel extraction & from an early brick works, traces of odd-shaped excavations resulting from military training in the area, & low earth banks marking out the perimeters of early plantations. "Hut Hill" is a bronze age round barrow, while an odd circular area, known for some time as "The Warren" is now thought to be of a much earlier origin, unrelated to rabbit breeding, according to a recent archaeological survey.

After many year under local authority care the area is now owned by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust which is taking a more pro-active approach to management, including the removal of stretches of fencing & the clearance of small areas of woodland to produce corridors linking the three main areas of heathland. The old waste dump area to the south is also being managed as rough grassland. Information about the reserve can be found here.

This is a residential estate to the east of the A14 in Bury St Edmunds. It contains the usual suburban mix of quiet roads, paths, cycle tracks and small open spaces and has the commercial area at its southern edge. The map currently in use has been derived from Open Orienteering.

Suitable for smaller events.

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.

This area, to the east of Ipswich, is a small patch of heather and gorse heathland, with additional interest provided by the many pits and trenches originating from its use as a training area during WW1.

Suitable for smaller events.

Rendlesham Forest: Daisy's Wood & 100 Acre Walks

The north-western part of Rendlesham Forest - an area of coniferous and deciduous blocks of trees of various ages on either side of a small, rather marshy valley. The map has now been extended to the younger conifer plantations south of the B1084 to allow for the easier design of longer courses, though the area may need to be rested through a period of intense forestry management. This section of the map could be further extended to the west, to include an intricate area around the abandoned rifle butts.

An area of gorse heathland and scattered woodland on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich. It is open-access common land and has previously been farmland, a drill area for the army and a decoy target for Nazi bombers.

As a golf course uses parts of the Heath it is only really suitable for training exercises.

Sudbury is a medieval market town on the banks of the River Stour with surrounding residential areas of differing ages and complexities.  There are also extensive water meadows on one side of the town containing, and linked to the town by, a series of complicated paths and alleys. The whole area has been recently mapped and this new map will be used for an urban event for the first time in 2023, as part of "The Mayflower Weekend", which also includes the Harwich urban event being organised by Essex Stragglers. If travelling to East Anglia for the urban weekend the Town Council's website has much additional information on local accommodation and attractions - and a visit to, for example, the newly reopened Gainsborough's House Museum may well be something to consider once the orienteering is over for the day.

The sub-section of the map known as "Sudbury Meadows" is the area of low-lying grazing meadows - also containing some patches of woodland and many water features - alongside the River Stour. This area has been mapped previously and used for smaller events both by ourselves and by Essex Stragglers.

Rendlesham Forest: Tangham

The southern part of Rendlesham Forest, made famous by the UFO (Unidentified Flying Orienteer?) visitation in 1980. The area is typical of East Anglian forest, with coniferous blocks of various ages on either side of the valley of The Tang.The area was last used for orienteering in 2015. Parts of the forest were thinned in subsequent years, but the forest is now back in excellent condition. There is a lot of good, clear, runnable terrain with some area of intricate vegetation detail.

The size of the area and point feature detail and variety, together with the increased "runnability", makes the area ideally suited to larger events, such as the 2023 East Anglian Championships.

West Stow

This is the most southerly section of the forest, lying to the west of the B1106 and just to the north of Lackford Lakes and West Stow Country Park. Previously known as King's South, the area has not been used for an event for some time, but will see action again during the "Autumn in Anglia" weekend in 2023.

Tunstall Forest

A large (14 sq km) Forestry Commission coniferous plantation to NE of Woodbridge, it includes the adjoining heathlands of Tunstall and Blaxhall Commons and some patches of mixed woodland. The forest was clear-felled a few years after the original 5 colour map was produced in 1975 by EAOA / HAVOC members, but, following phased replanting, it has now reached a level of maturity suitable for the sport. Mainly flat but surprisingly physical, the area has a wealth of line and point features and a great variety of vegetation making it suitable for Regional or National events.

Currently developed into three maps:

Tunstall Forest: Central (aka Viking)

The northern part of the forest, the section used by the Viking mountain bike trail. It is mostly cultivated forest with patches of mixed woodland. The area is largely flat, but with many pits and earth-banks and a great variety of vegetation. It is very suitable for regional events.