Fantasy urban events

[Scott]

I was chatting to a few people the other day about how urban orienteering has opened up so many more possible areas for the sport, and we were speculating about what the best (so-far) unmapped urban areas in the UK would be.

Any ideas? I reckon most of us must live near or know of a least one potential high-quality area which hasn't yet been used.

A couple of my favourites to get things started:

St Ives
(in Cornwall, not Huntingdonshire). My own never-ending semi-complete mapping project. Tiny twisty streets, ridiculously narrow steps and cut-throughs, lots of hill, a random rocky open bit, and the sea. I hear rumours something may actually be happening here in the distant future...

Portmeirion
Would be brilliantly surreal. Maybe a bit small, but you could include some of the surrounding woodland.

Any other suggestions? There must be loads of old villages out there with mazes of little streets, and a few modern housing estates with lots of criss-crossing back alleys.

[graeme]

Heathrow Airport.
JCMB.
Natural History Museum.

[madmike]

Clovelly?

Might be an issue with the climb ration though!

[gg]

Alton Towers / Thorpe Park

[PhilJ]

SBOC have been approached to map the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, early days but could be a very good urban area aka Welsh Eden Project. We just need to find someone to map the area/agree budget/funding etc.

[denzil53]

The NEC
http://www.thenec.co.uk/travel/Documents/nec-site-map.pdf

[epocian]

The NEC
http://www.thenec.co.uk/travel/Documents/nec-site-map.pdf

Unless you got permission to go into the halls whilst an exhibition was on it would be a waste of time.

[AndyC]

In all seriousness maybe that could be possible during the Outdoors Show?

[RanaldMacdonald]

Metro Centre, Gateshead; Meadowhall, Sheffield; Trafford Park, Manchester;Bluewater, Kent; etc. - and a DVO member keeps suggesting IKEA, but perhaps he doesn't get out much ...

[madmike]

Portmeirion
Would be brilliantly surreal. Maybe a bit small, but you could include some of the surrounding woodland.

might be a bit dangerous?

[Pete_Bog]

Alton Towers was used many years ago - probably by Chasers, made an excellent event. Not many events that you have to run past dinosaurs

I believe that there have been indoor and outdoor events at the NEC during the Outdoors Show. Mapped by Bruce Bryant of OD.

[denzil53]

The NEC
http://www.thenec.co.uk/travel/Documents/nec-site-map.pdf

Unless you got permission to go into the halls whilst an exhibition was on it would be a waste of time.

Just a fantasy . . . .

[Scott]

Portmeirion

might be a bit dangerous?

I think you'd be safe as long as you didn't try to go out of bounds.

Alton Towers looks like it would be fun.

[entries-sec]

Not many events that you have to run past dinosaurs.

QO have mapped Norton Manor Camp, courtesy of 40 Commando. Arthur planned an event there not long after they got back from Iraq (the Marines, that is ...). One control was on a statue of Saddam Hussein

Christine

[Stodgetta]

Alton Towers was discussed last week at our fixtures & mapping meeting
Any volunteers to map it
Drayton Manor Park is also on our shortlist...