- Date and time: Monday 27th October 2025, 6:00pm
- Event type: Club run
- Start point: Gate to track at foot of Locker Brook
- Grid ref: SK172892
- Distance: 5.4 miles
- Climb: 1120 feet
Start at gate onto track and then footpath climbing steeply through Lockerbrook Coppice and across field to rough track at corner of Lockerbrook Heights. Turn left past Farm/Outdoor Centre, turning south-east beside Hagg Side plantation (it’s easy for the unwary to miss this turn). Continue along ridge track to end of plantation, then on fainter footpaths and a slightly confusing mess of gates, walls and stiles to beyond and below rocky edge of Crook Hill, descending through grass and perhaps some bracken to a small cairn (lovely curated by Simon Dixon and others). Please use choice of access stiles / gates indicated by purple splodges on map – do not climb random walls. The better racing lines skirt, rather than go over the two lumps; but it’s a matter of some uncertainty as to which skirt is preferable. From the cairn (roughly SK18508665) retrace your route halfway along Hagg Side (trying out a different Crook Hill skirt, if you wish), then descend east down rough track to and across Fairholmes road, picking up tourist footpath beside reservoir. Finish at south-east end of car park (free after 6, or possibly 6.30pm). 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.
