St Briavels Common 2021

Unlike most of our maprun courses this one is wholly rural, using the wonderful network of lanes, byeways and footpaths on the side of the Wye Valley between Brockweir and St Briavels, astride Offa's Dyke. The map is a custome drawn one which shows only the key detail needed for navigating the course. The whole area slopes down from the heights of St Briavels to the Wye at Brockweir, so climb is a serious challenge, and working out how to score points while avoiding too much up and down is key to a good score.

Parking is at the Brockweir Community Shop, or if that's busy, on the roadside down the hill towards and below the MacKenzie Hall. The parking is not owned by the shop, so you can legitimately park there, but you should buy something anyway, and support it. It's a great place for a coffee or lunch after your run, and a very well stocked shop, so do use it.

The Start is on the road right by the entrance to the shop car park, so if you are parked close to the entrance be aware that you will get a start beep as soon as you tap Go to Start. The Finish is in the play field below the shop, right down towards the bottom corner furthest from the road.

The course can be downloaded from the UK/Gloucestershire/Current Series folder until end of October 2021, when we start the winter series, and thereafter from the UK/Gloucestershire/Forest of Dean District folder.