BOK Local event
Sat 3rd May 2025
Bristol
SWOA
Local
Location
| Venue: | Blaise Castle Estate |
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| Nearest town: | Bristol |
| Event centre: | Main car park, Kings Weston Road |
| Postcode: | BS10 7QT |
| Grid reference: | ST558787 |
| Parking information: | Parking for the event is in Blaise Castle Estate main car park, off Kings Weston Road, BS10 7QS. Grid reference ST559787. What 3 word location: ///buzz.harsh.spaces There is a charge for parking up to a maximum fee of £3 for up to 5 hours. Overflow parking is often made available on busy days. Please note that there is a Parkrun at Blaise on Saturdays at 9am which makes the parking area very busy until around 9.45am. Parkrunners should start leaving from around 9.30am but, on sunny weekends, the car park tends to fill up quickly again by late morning. If the main car park is full, some free parking is available on surrounding roads but please park considerately. Assembly is around 50m from the parking area, in the club house next to the children’s play area. The start is around 300m from assembly / parking area. The finish is next to assembly. |
| Dog rules: | Please keep your dog under control in all areas. Dogs need to be on a lead near the toilets and café, and in the car park. Blaise is a popular dog walking area and dogs will be encountered off the lead throughout the area. Dogs may accompany runners on courses but must be kept under control at all times. |
Details
| Description: | Part of BOK's Local event series, scoring towards Club Senior League and Junior League. Caution: crags: Some of the valley sides have steep crags / cliff faces. The courses have been planned to ensure you do not need to cross these, but on courses of Orange and above you must navigate carefully and pay attention to your surroundings. One cliff face in particular is marked on the map as an ‘out of bounds’ boundary to ensure it is avoided and will be marked with tape where necessary. If your route choice looks dangerous, please use your common sense – please err on the side of caution! Blaise Castle Estate is a mix of open, fast running parkland and steep wooded terrain with an irregular path network. The main paths are mapped but small and indistinct paths are not. The estate is a public space and is often very busy at the weekends, particularly on the main paths. Please be respectful of other users and take care of dogs and small children on bikes/scooters. Given the time of year and warm spring, vegetation is likely to be denser generally than appears on the map. All paths could be muddy/slippery particularly if wet, with many exposed tree roots and rocks underfoot, so O-shoes or grippy trail shoes are very much recommended. Ticks are present in Blaise, so fully body cover is required. There is a stream running alongside the metalled path running through the gorge. Under normal conditions this is crossable at many points but may become deep and fast-flowing after heavy rain and should be avoided under such conditions. There are bridges no courses require it to be crossed elsewhere. |
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| Type: | Cross Country |
| Physical difficulty of terrain: | Easy |
| Entry times: | 10:30-12:30. Courses close 14:00 |
| Punch type: | SI |
| Hire fee: | £2 |
| Competitions: | Club League |
| Event number: | 84520 |
| Event website: | Click here |
| Final details web page: | Click here |
Courses
| Course description: | Map: • White & Yellow: 1:5,000 scale on A3 (to aid readability). All other courses: 1:7,500 on A4. 5m contours. • Drawn by Trevor Crowe in 2018 and updated in 2021 by Mike Forrest • Control descriptions (text for White/Yellow, pictorial for all other courses) will be on the map and printed as loose control descriptions. |
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| Colour coded courses: | String, White, Yellow, Orange, Light Green, Short Green, Green, Blue |
XS 0-2.5km | S 2.6-5.0km | M 5.1-7.5km | L 7.6-10km | XL 10.1km + | |
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| Very Easy | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Easy | ✓ | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Medium | ✘ | ✘ | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Hard | ✘ | ✘ | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Very Hard | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Course Technical Difficulty and Length (Km) are a guide to the standard of the courses offered. | |||||
Entry
| Payment date | Junior/student | Senior | Family/group |
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| £3 (£3) | £5.5 (£8) | £0 | |
| Non-member fees shown in brackets. | |||
| Online entry via: | https://pre-entries.co.uk/ |
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| Online entry closing date: | 22/06/2025 |
Contact us
| Club: | BOK |
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| Association: | SWOA |
| Contact: | Hannah Large |