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After our recent race on Headless Hill, we return to the same parking and assembly areas for our final league race this year, this time running East from the Staunton ridge across to Highmeadow Woods and Bracelands campsite.

The penultimate race in the NGOC 2025 League will take place on Parkend Walk, including a new extension into Noxon Park, which brings the village of Bream into play for the longest courses getting over to the far Eastern areas of the map.

Newent is a fairly compact town/village, surrounded by usually rather dark and muddy fields, so for this race we return to the Odds and Evens format on a 1:7,500 scale map.

Our second race, and the third in the 2025-26 Western Night League, is back in the Forest of Dean, at Bixslade

The Western Night League is a series of 60-minute score events in the local area, taking place after dark in the winter - headtorches required!

[Update on 14 November 2025] If any of you have read this update even though we haven't advertised it, please read again.

Please note the change of date, from Thursday 6th November, as originally published, to Wednesday 5th November

After the hill in Gloucester, we head to the relative 'plains' of Northern Hereford and its mix of trading estates and suburbia, with some un-lit recreation grounds, footpaths and country lanes.