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West Anglian Orienteering Club

Park-OCherry Hinton Hall ParkSat 14 March, 2026

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Near: Cambridge
Level of event: Local
Type of event: Race

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We hope you enjoyed your runs around the parkland around Cherry Hinton Hall. Even though it's not a very big area, the score course was quite challenging as it was easy to lose track of which of the 30 controls you'd got (hint: take a pen and cross them off!).

It was very disappointing to have two controls stolen (plus a third where we managed to find the culprits and get it back). Hopefully, this didn't spoil it too much for you. We made controls 219 and 225 optional, so if you missed them it didn't matter. For the score course, we made them score zero points.

Update: 15th March. Luckily, we found one of controls today outside the park, but one is still missing.

Pre Event Info

Location Info

* Postcodes are not very precise in some areas, so don't rely on them for an exact location.

A fun orienteering event aimed at juniors, families and newcomers in Cherry Hinton Hall Park. Starts will run between 1pm and 3pm.

Pre-entries will open one month before the event, and we will also accept entries on the day.

We are holding our Annual Prizegiving and AGM in Cherry Hinton later that afternoon (from 4pm).

Park-O Series Info

Our Park-O events are an easy way for juniors and adults to try orienteering. Based in parks around Cambridge, Park-O takes place on a Saturday afternoon 1pm-3pm. We schedule our Park-Os in the gaps between our full scale Sunday orienteering events and we hope that once you have tried Park-O you will come along to all our events.

What happens at Park-O? Click here to find out...

Park-O How-to Guide

Read more about this series

Directions / Parking

There is a small, free car park at the entrance to the park.  If you live locally, it would be helpful if you could walk / cycle / catch the bus.

In case the car park is full, parking is also available on the residential streets nearby. 

Registration will be close to the car park.

Nearest Postcode: CB1 8DW.

Course Information

We typically offer the following courses at a Park-O event:

  • Short  ~ 2km Easy (Comparable to a "Yellow" course at a regular Orienteering event)
  • Long  ~ 3km Medium difficulty (Comparable to an "Orange" course at a regular O event)    
  • Odds/Evens score course - intended for more experienced orienteers: visit as many controls as you can within a fixed time limit of 30 minutes. You can get odds and then evens or evens then odds, but once you switch you cannot go back.

If you want to know more about how we grade courses as "Easy", "Medium" etc., look for the "Colour Coded Course Standards" section in our beginners' guide.

Entry Details

Each course costs £3 for juniors/students and £5 for adults (21yrs+) or family groups. Entry for a second course on the same day is just £1 subject to map availability.

In order to ensure you get to run the course of your choice, we recommend that you pre-register to take part in this event, which you can do at WAOC entries at oentry.uk (Entries will open one month in advance of the event).

You will be allocated a hire dibber, if you do not have one. No payment is required until you turn up for the event. Please bring a credit or debit card for payment.

You can also just turn up and enter on the day, but bear in mind it will take longer to process your entry. Please bring a credit or debit card for payment.

If you haven't been before, please read the information on our Park-O page so that you know what to do - we will have officials around to help if needed.

Registration and Start Times

Starts will operate between 1pm and 3pm.

Please note that courses close at 3:30pm. If you wish to do the long course, you need to start by 2:30pm, unless you have sufficient experience that you will be able to finish before 3:30pm.

Terrain and map details

Course maps will be A4 sized, printed on waterproof paper.

Guidance for beginners available from Registration. First Aid will be located at Download. There are toilets available within the park.