- Date and time: Monday 5th January 2026, 6:00pm
- Event type: DPFR race
- Grid ref: SK198849
- Distance: 4.5 miles
- Climb: 1060 feet
- League: Winter Mondays
Start/Finish at 15mph sign/cul de sac gatepost on lane to west of Yorkshire Bridge. Through gate, left up steps and all way up Parkin Clough to Win Hill. Pass immediately below trig point to left, descending along Hope Brink for 2km. Turn right into plantation down track swinging left then right below Wooler Knoll. Turn right after gate onto contouring track for 2.5km. Keep an eye out for rising footpath to right just before final descent to reservoir (if you drop onto tarmac, you’ve gone too far). Continue to contour east, crossing straight over at least two other forest tracks, before dropping south-east to tarmac road by reservoir wall. Final half km on tarmac back to start. Full route on map.
Starts from 18:00 for slower runners, to 18:30 for the whippets. Special dispensations to set out earlier for the over 70s.
Please carry full FRA kit as a minimum, as well as a head torch and mobile phone in case of emergency and/or torch battery failure.
R.O. Willy Kitchen. Fuller details (and a bit of back history) for Winter Mondays series here.