1
Rushmore
- This private woodland belongs to the Rushmore Estate. Roughly
three square kilometres, it is remote and mostly very runnable but has
an extensive path network. There are a number of penned areas allowing
for forest regeneration and it is mainly deciduous with undulating contours.
A very nice area.
2
Bisterne
Close - This is a large area East of Burley produced in different
sizes and scales as appropriate. To the North it is mixed New Forest
woodland with an increasing number of open areas and to the South mostly
open with numerous heavily contoured valleys and quite a few marshes.
Bisterne Close is the name of the circular road around habitations that
pokes into the mapped area from the West.
3
Greenberry
Bridge - This large area skirts the east side of Burley village
and extends south across the line of an old railway to cover a New Forest
'enclosure' known as 'Holmsley Enclosure'. The center of the area is
rolling open New Forest heather clad and typical. Woods in the enclosure,
with scrub land to the west and a beech forest strip with natural forest
areas to the north of the village.
4
Dunyeats Hill and Delph Wood - Divided in half with natural
woodland to the north and an open but overgrown area to the south it
lies just west of the Poole to Wimborne road. A little bit of everything
in a small area, well used for training and minor events.
5
Poole
Park (Permanent Course) - Dead flat area surrounding Pooles
inner lake. A busy broken-up site with bits of everything in miniature,
ideal for basic training and complete with a permanent course with fixed
post markers.
6
Rempstone
- Undulating forested area north of the Corfe Castle to Studland
road, bordering the edge of Poole Harbour. A heavily tracked working
forest offering a range of challenges, it borders the Wytch Farm oil
installation which you are most unlikely to even see, and it is a relatively
remote place and very peaceful.
7
Sugar
Hill - This is another quite large area straddling the Wareham
to Bere Regis road. A straggling east west escarpment with many re-entrants,
runs north of a large uncrossable marsh surrounded by a fir forest which
has been progressively thinned to leave numerous rough open areas. There's
a bit of everything in this area, some of it quite tough going, but
generally pretty runable.
8
Coldharbour
- Overlaps Sugar Hill in the north, it's North/South area is divided
up the middle by a very large marsh into two interlinked areas. Well
contoured in the south, mostly fir forests surround haphazardly cleared
areas. Less furrows than Sugar Hill, but some quite difficult areas.
9
Cull-peppers Dish - Lying South of the A35 and Briantspuddle
this is a composite area having a privately owned North facing slope
with many interesting features, being entirely wooded;a mainly open
and boggy Forestry Commission area to the South;another privately owned
naturally wooded area to the SW; plus a part of the Bovington training
area to the East. Altogether an interesting and different area requiring
decent orienteering skills.
10
Affpuddle Woods - Lies to the West of Cullpepperes Dish on
a mostly forested ridge. There is quite a bit of rhododendron invasion,
but the area is blessed with many large depressions.The whole area is
only two kilometres wide and one and a half kilometres deep but represents
quite a tricky orienteering area.
11
Shillingstone
Hill - A steeply sloping north facing escarpment linked in the
east to a large and steep re-entrant area, and this in turn to a further
forested gently sloping area with numerous large depressions. The forested
area virtually surrounds a hilltop field crossable on tracks. A demanding
area, but not over large.
12
Ramsdown
Plantation - Lies to the west of the Bournemouth spur road with
a steep 'fight' surrounded hill to the south and mainly open rolling
moorland to the north with peripheral wooded parts. A smallish area
used mostly for training, it is certainly not uninteresting.
13
Hethfelton
- A small area between Wool and Wareham, now in use again after
twenty years, it is fairly flat with mixed deciduous and coniferous
trees and some open areas. Useful for training events but quite hard
going in spite of its lack of contours.
14
Upton
Country Park (Permanent Course) - Upton
Country Park is a delightful mix of parkland and woods around Upton
House on the edge of Poole Inner Harbour.
15
Littledown
Cemtre (Permanent Course) - Littledown
Park is a delightful, family friendly park around twin ponds, lying
behind the Leisure Centre.
Canford
Heath - East of the Poole to Wimborne road this is almost entirely
open heathland with pockets of natural woodland and scrub. Undulating
with a long escarpment along the south side. The area is now restricted
in its use to path running only, so is little used unfortunately.
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