- Date and time: Monday 8th December 2025, 6:00pm
- Event type: DPFR race
- Grid ref: SK214995
- Distance: 4.8 miles
- Climb: 965 feet
- League: Winter Mondays
Start/Finish by gateway to Thickwoods Lane (junction of Low Moor and Back Lanes). Head west along Thickwoods Lane, cross brook and follow rising stony track as far as North America fields. Turn southwest onto muddy track beside enclosure wall, then across open moorland on footpath to Mickleden Edge. Follow edge south-southeast for about a kilometer before picking up sloppy track (indistinct at first) swinging south-east, then northeast, above left bank of Sugden Clough. All being well, you’ll drop onto the vehicle track which leads down to a ford across Thickwoods Brook easily enough, but the initial section from Mickleden Edge definitely merits a daylight recce. Leave vehicle track about half a kilometer after ford, bearing left on trod, then footpath, between Thickwoods Brook and enclosure wall to west of Thickwoods. Turn right at gate, and right again along Thickwoods Lane to finish where you started. 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.