Winter Mondays Race 6 – Broomhead Trail

  • Date and time: Monday 2nd November 2026, 6:00pm
  • Event type: DPFR race
  • Grid ref: SK 242 961
  • Distance: 3.6 miles
  • Climb: 610 feet
  • League: Winter Mondays

Start/Finish gateway to Mortimer Road, beside plantation. Follow vehicle track anti-clockwise to shooting lodge and one km beyond; at head of Rushy Dike (SK224950) leave track and bash east-south-east on compass bearing parallel to dike as far as Dukes Road.  Left along Dukes Road for one km, leaving track left by cairn at SK237948 on bearing north-north-east to grouse butts parallel to Black Brook.  Left at track beside Mortimer Road to return to start/finish.  Full route on map.

Starts from 18:00 for slower runners, to 18:30 for the whippets.  Over 70s are welcome to race at any time on the day.

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.

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