A Grand Day Out
On Sunday (8th March) SROC held a National Event at Witherslack, 6 miles SW of Kendal. The event was based at Witherslack Hall, a very impressive Victorian Mansion (now a school), with download and enquiries located on the lawned terrace in front of the house. Happily the terrain and courses lived up to the grand setting. Okay, some of it…
Keep readingBOC – Medals and Mud
The British Orienteering Long and Relay Championships took place last weekend (28th Feb/1st Mar) in South Wales. The Long was held at Carreg Goch, an area of high limestone moorland in the Black Mountain, that some people will remember from Day 3 of Croeso 2024. Using an area like this in February is clearly risky, but the organisers got away…
Keep readingBL sweep to victory in Compass Sport Trophy Heat!
On Sunday (22nd February) BL not only put on the NW Heat of the CompassSport Cup and Trophy at Beacon Hill in Penrith, we also won the Trophy competition (for smaller clubs), thus qualifying for the final. As team captain Andy says “Well done everybody!! A convincing win with some outstanding results” Here is the report that Dan has written…
Keep readingHawse End – 15th February
The first Cumbrian Galoppen event of the new year took place at Hawse End on the west shore of Derwent Water on Sunday. Despite less than ideal weather there were nearly 200 participants, including 25 Border Liners. Early starters had the best (or may be that should be least bad) of it, but around 11:00 the intermittent drizzle turned to…
Keep readingBritish Night Champs – 7th February
The British Night Orienteering champs was held at Egypt Woods, near Slough on Saturday evening. Six BL members made the long journey south in hope of a high quality, challenging event, and possibly the odd medal. The former was realised, but sadly not the latter. Egypt Woods is a smallish, gently undulating area of beech woodland in the Chilterns, mostly…
Keep readingHammond’s Pond Event – 1st February
The first event in Border Liners Saturday Series 2026 took place on Sunday (sic) 1st February at Hammond’s Pond, a.k.a. Upperby Park, Carlisle. A petite area, new to most people, it had been mapped by Keith who also planned some fine Sprint Courses for experienced orienteers plus the usual Beginners course. Being a nice sunny day, the park was a…
Keep readingBL winners at Northern Night Champs
The Northern Night Champs took place at Wilton Woods near Guisborough on Saturday 24th January. The area consists largely of a very steep (think 1:3) wooded slope with many pits and reentrants, and from all accounts, a thick coating of mud and brambles; not to everyone’s taste, but a good challenge producing worthy winners. Two BL members were crowned champion:…
Keep readingCUMBRIA, 1000 YEARS OF MAPS
by William ShannonLakeland book of the year winner 2025. An illustrated talk on Maps took place last week in Threlkeld’s bright, warm Village Hall, given by David Fenton, publisher of this fascinating “Coffee Table” sized book, working from the Author William Shannon’s original notes. It was as Isabel Berry’s “item of interest” in the latest BL Club Newsletter that it…
Keep readingMaggie’s Cancer Care and who was Maggie?
(Many thanks to Angela for this insight) There won’t be many Orienteers in Cumberland who haven’t heard of Maggie’s Cancer Care, after both WCOC’s New Year’s Day event at Mawbray and the Wrens’ of Border Liners traditional event on Whittas next to Binsey both supported the charity via Ian Teasdale of WCOC and his Just-giving website “Terminalhillness”. Ian with terminal…
Keep readingOrienteering at Whittas Park – 3rd January 2026
Border Liners Orienteering Club held their first event of the year on Saturday 3rd January at Whittas Park near Bassenthwaite. As always this was independently organised by Raymond Wren with all entry fees going to charity. This year’s beneficiary was “Terminalhilless”, Ian Teasdale’s fundraising campaign in aid of Maggie’s cancer care. The weather was bright and sunny but very cold,…
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