Car parking
Car parking is on Cannimore Woods on a firm ride,. We are limited to 40 cars on this occasion - so please try to fill up your car with other runners, if you can, so that we can accommodate the maximum number of entrants!
Approach from the A62, immediately west of Warminster. Follow signs to Longleat & Centre Parks; approaching from Warminster to the east, turn left at the roundabout at ST841440 , then take the first turn left - this will be signed. This is before reaching the entrance to Centre Parcs. The entrance to Cannimore is down on the left hand side of this road.
Entrance: ST842437 (BA12 7JS - W3W seaweed.curts.rockets).
Travel down the ride carefully then turn right for the parking area. The exit is along a neighbouring ride.
Assembly, Download and the Start are located along a marked route about 600m from the car park across a road into Shearwater. Please follow the crossing marshal's instructions.

Map/Terrain
Scale 1:7500 ; 5m contours Size - A4
Map updated in Spring 2023; printed on waterproof paper

Longleat woods is one of, if not the, longest established area of continuous cover forestry in the country. This means unless disease hits, there is never any clear felling. As a result, the woodlands are very varied in age and species giving different parts of the wood very different characters and runnability. There are plenty of rhododendron thickets, often penetrated by sinuous paths, as well as rough open areas dominated by bracken and recently planted young trees. The woods are home to some magnificent Giant Redwoods including the second largest in Europe.

Shear Water Woods are very popular with a range of users: dog walkers, horse riders, mountain bikers and joggers. As a result, in addition to the already detailed network of tracks and rides there are numerous smaller paths of varying levels of definition. The mapper’s work, augmented by more recent additions has aimed to capture the most used paths but others develop on what seems to be an almost weekly basis. Similarly, hides appear and collapse over short time scales and every named storm (and others) seems to fell more trees so creating additional rootstocks. We have done our best to map the more recent changes in the vicinity of controls.
Map notation:
Hides are depicted by a Black cross
Root stocks are depicted by a Green cross

Courses
Yellow, Orange, Light Green, Short Green, Green, Blue, Brown (NB Blue and Brown maps will be double sided)

Conduct
Please make yourself aware of and abide by the British Orienteering Participant Code of Conduct

Acting as an ambassador of the sport of orienteering at all times and considering how your actions may appear in the eyes of landowners or members of the public. This is the first time we have used these woods for some time and are very keen to ensure that nothing we do discourages further permissions.

Times
Starts from 11.00 - 13:00.
Assembly plus the Start and Finish are all in Shearwater which is about 600m from the parking in Cannimore. Allow about 20-30 minutes to get between the two areas.
Please obey the Road Crossing marshals

Start and Finish. The Start is located approx 600m from the Car Park with the Start and Finish both about 200m from Assembly. If you already have an SI card, you may proceed directly to the Start. Please sign in with the Start Team

Starts times are in 15 minute blocks to avoid crowding but it is a punching Start

Course closes: 15.00
Control collectors - please come to the Planner near Download at about 14.30

Facilities
A toilet will be available + gel to use, near Assembly in Shearwater - not in the Car Park.
First Aid next to Download in the Shearwater wood
No Refreshments or water at the event, so please bring your own.
Clothing dump next to First Aid

Safety
• Other users. Other users of the area could include horse riders, dog walkers, mountain bikers. Please show due respect if you meet any of these on your run and please take particular care when horses come by you.
• Tracks. There are potholes on some tracks which may be deep and may be filled with water. These should be avoided, especially by juniors, and courses have been planned to avoid these as much as possible. There could be some unmarked forestry tracks
• Broken fences - some fences are broken and covered in grass.
• Kit. Full body cover required – legs and torso, as defined by BOF.
• Whistles. Whistles are advisable especially for juniors.
• Weather. In the event of extreme wet, cold or windy weather. you will be required to carry or wear a cagoule. A decision will be made, based on the then Met Office forecast, and published on the event website and Racesignup no later than 2000 on Saturday 4th May 2024 as to whether cagoules are required or not. The decision will also be posted in Assembly.
• Ticks. Ticks are omnipresent, and tick-borne disease is a risk, albeit a small one. Apart from abiding by the full body cover rule, you should examine yourselves and your children carefully for ticks after your run. Lyme disease is a particularly unpleasant condition which can be caused by tick bites. Go to http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk for more information on Lyme disease and its symptoms.
• Solo runners. If you are travelling and running alone, you may wish to leave details of yourself and your car with enquiries.
• Medical conditions. Competitors with existing medical conditions are asked to provide a sealed envelope with their name and club on the outside, and the medical condition explained inside plus details of medication and dosage. Spare forms and envelopes will be available at Registration. The envelope will only be opened in an emergency. The envelope is to be handed in to Registration for safe keeping before competitors start their runs.

Dogs
Sorry - no dogs as area is near roads

Timing System
The controls are SIAC enabled. Non SIAC dibbers available for hire. Lost dibbers: £60.
Hire dibbers can be collected from a table next to Download; they will be collected from you after you have Downloaded.

Finish and Download
After punching at the Finish, please make your way back up to Download. Please go to Download even if you do not Finish your course.
Make sure you Download before returning to the Car Park!!

Results
Results will be available via Racesignup and later on the Club website, hopefully by later the same evening

Risk
Orienteering is an adventure sport; you are responsible for your own safety at the event and must not do anything that puts yourself or others at unnecessary risk.

Event Officials
Planner: Andrew Graham (Sarum)
Organiser: Liz Yeadon (Sarum) Contact details: fixtures@sarumo.org.uk
Controller: Steve Robertson (QO)

The use of Cannimore & Shearwater is by kind permission of the Longleat Estate