East London Urban Weekend
28-29 March 2026
Entries close 16:59 on 27th Mar
Entries close 16:59 on 27th Mar
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| Entered Beckton: | 167 |
| Entered Canning Town: | 138 |
Chigwell and Epping Forest and Dartford orienteering clubs are delighted to welcome you to a weekend of exciting urban racing in East London. Expect a mixture of urban regeneration with impressive new buildings and older housing estates.
Final details for the Beckton event are now available on the CHIG website. Final details for the Canning Town event are expected to be published on Sunday.
Beckton Urban (UKUL)
Course 1 Men's Open (MO)
Entered: 23
Course 2 Women's Open (WO), Men's Veteran's (M40+)
Courses 1 and 2 have 35 to 40 controls so SI cards in the series 1-500,000 and 2xxxxxx are not able to be used. A SIAC will need to be hired when you enter if you only have one of these SI cards
Entered: 22
Course 3 Women's Veteran's (W40+), Men's Super Veteran's (M55+)
Entered: 37
Course 4 Women's Super Veteran's (W55+), Men's Ultra Veteran's (M65+)
Entered: 49
Course 5 Women's Ultra Veteran's (W65+), Women's Hyper Veteran's (W75+), Men's Hyper Veteran's (M75+
Entered: 27
Course 6 Women's Juniors (W16-), Men's Juniors (M16-)
Entered: 6
Course 7 Women's Young Juniors (W12-), Men's Young Juniors (M12-)
Entered: 3
Course 8 Beckton Newham Residents
The course is for residents of Newham interested in participating in an orienteering event for the first time. Guidance will be given before you start.
Course 9 Royal Docks Academy and Beal High schools
This course is for pupils of the two schools and any adults accompanying them. Guidance will be given before you start.
Canning Town Urban (SEOUL)
Course 1 Men's Open (MO)
This courses has more than 30 controls so SI cards in the series 1-500,000 and 2xxxxxx are not able to be used. A SIAC will need to be hired when you enter if you only have one of these SI cards
Entered: 14
Course 2 Women's Open (WO), Men's Veteran's (M40+)
Entered: 21
Course 3 Women's Veteran's (W40+), Men's Super Veteran's (M55+)
Entered: 31
Course 4 Women's Super Veteran's (W55+), Men's Ultra Veteran's (M65+)
Entered: 43
Course 5 Women's Ultra Veteran's (W65+), Women's Hyper Veteran's (W75+), Men's Hyper Veteran's (M75+
Entered: 22
Course 6 Women's Juniors (W16-), Men's Juniors (M16-)
Entered: 4
Course 7 Women's Young Juniors (W12-), Men's Young Juniors (M12-)
Entered: 3
Course 8 Canning Town Newham Residents
The course is for residents of Newham interested in participating in an orienteering event for the first time. Guidance will be given before you start.
Course 9 Star Lane Primary and Eastlea
The course is for pupils at Star Lane Primary School and any adults accompanying them. Guidance will be given before you start.
See the CHIG website for Beckton course details and the DFOK website for Canning Town course details, in each case including the course lengths and the number of controls.
Start and finish
Beckton - the start is a 900m walk from the Event Centre. The finish for juniors is a 900m walk back to the Event Centre for download and for adults it is 300m.
Canning Town - the start is less than 150m from the Event Centre and the finish is very close to the Event Centre.
Beckton: At any time between 12:00 to 14:00
Canning Town: At any time between 10:30 and 12:30.
Entry fees are:
Standard Entry (to midnight on Sunday 15/3/26)
Seniors £12, Juniors £4
Late Entry (from 16/3/26 to 6pm on 27/3/26)
Seniors £14, Juniors £5
There is a £2 surcharge for Seniors who are not members of British Orienteering
There is a £2 discount for Seniors entering both events at the same time.
SI electronic punching will used, add £1 to hire a standard SI Card (lost units charged at £30) and £2 to hire a SIAC (lost SIACs charged at £65).
As Courses 1 and 2 at Beckton and Course 1 at Canning Town have more than 30 controls, SI cards in the range 1-500,000 and 2xxxxxx will not be appropriate for these courses. If you have one of these series of SI cards, please hire a contactless (SIAC) at the time of entry as we do not have any standard SI cards available to hire with enough capacity for this course.
Families and other groups are welcome. Only one person needs to enter. Includes one copy of the map which you keep afterwards. Add the number in the group to the surname e.g. For Adam Smith and two others, the Surname will be Smith +2. This is so we know how many will be participating.
The course for Newham residents is £5 for Seniors for each event at all entry times up to the closing date.
There is no charge for pupils at Royal Docks Academy and Beal High schools participating in the Beckton event or for pupils at Star Lane Primary and Eastlea Community schools participating in the Canning Town event but you must enter the event using racesignup.co.uk in advance of the day.
We expect most people will choose to come by public transport as the transport links are excellent and the event centres are both very close to a Docklands Light Railway station.
A parking space can be booked for the Beckton event (no charge but numbers are limited to 100). Parking must be reserved in advance via racesignup. Parking for the Canning Town event is on residential streets at no cost but is very limited.
Both events are included in the Southern England Orienteering Urban League for 2026.
The map is 1:4,000 for all courses printed on waterproof paper.
Both areas are essentially flat. There are very few contours even at the 2m contour interval and no height gain is shown on the maps.
These two short videos will hopefully give you a good idea of what you will be doing Videos.
Contactless punching will be facilitated but it is a Punching Start and a Punching Finish.
Control descriptions are printed on the map. Loose control descriptions will be available in the Start lanes.
Results will not be on display at the event. There will be a QR code on your map which can be scanned to access live provisional results.
The full results will be available on the CHIG website Beckton results or the DFOK website Canning Town results in the late afternoon of each event date.
We are grateful to London Borough of Newham for permission to hold the events and to Royal Docks Academy and Star Lane Primary schools for the use of the facilities at our Event Centres.
