Purbeck Weekend - Studland Dunes and Durlston
2025-10-04
WSX are excited to welcome you again to the famous Isle of Purbeck, offering two high-quality events. Studland Dunes (now closed) will be a Long Distance event.
Durlston Country Park (on a completely new and larger map) is a South West Orienteering League event.
Entries will remain open until 17:30 4th Oct (Durlston only) but final limits for maps are now fixed.
Durlston Country Park has recently been mapped by Nick Nourse (Mapworks) and offers a complex area with steep slopes leading down to the cliffs of the Jurassic Coast. After the event, you can visit the Castle Cafe and Globe and even step back through 185 million years of geological history.
View Area Video here
For those wishing to camp, the Woodyhyde Campsite, between Corfe and Langton Matravers is available.
Studland Dunes
Brown 8.3km
Blue 6.8km
Green 3.6km
Short Green 2.4km
Light Green 2.5km
Orange 2.2km
Yellow 1.8km
White 1.6km
Durlston Country Park - South West Orienteering League
Brown for South West O League 7.8km 280m climb
Blue for South West O League 6.5km 255m climb
Green for South West O League 4.8km 180m climb
Short Green for South West O League 3.5km 95m climb
Light Green for South West O League 3.9km 115m climb
Orange for South West O League 2.5km 75m climb
Yellow for South West O League 1.9km 20m climb
White non-SWOL 1.5km 15m climb
Although this is a SWOL event, this course will not qualify for points in that league because there is no category for White in the league.
Course length values for both Studland and Durlston have now been updated to reflect the details from course planning.
Senior: £12.00/£14.00
Senior Novice: £6.00
Senior Chip hire: £1.00
Junior: £2.00
Junior Chip hire: £0.00
Durlston CP
Senior: £12.00/£14.00
Senior Novice: £6.00
Senior Chip hire: £1.00
Junior: £2.00
Junior Chip hire: £0.00
Juniors are under 21 on 31st December. Novice fees are charged for seniors on Orange, Yellow or White courses.
A £2 discount will be applied for senior competitors entered for both days.
The £2 Non-Member Supplement applies to people over 21 who are not members of British Orienteering and not running the novice course.
On Saturday there is a long distance event on Studland Dunes with an excursion onto Agglestone Heath for Blue and Brown courses. On Sunday there are the usual long distance, colour coded, cross-country courses on offer in the SW Orienteering League event on the recently extended and updated Durlston Country Park on the West side of Swanage.
Day 1 - Knoll Beach - National Trust car park and cafe.
Day 2 - Durlston Country Park
Day1
Car parking for Saturday is free to National Trust members or £5 all day to non-members - at the event venue. What3words location is: study.masks.likely
Day2
Car parking for Sunday is at the event venue car parks
Saturday's event takes place on the heathland of Studland Dunes with complex contour features interupted by wet slacks marked out of bounds.
The Sunday SWOL event takes place on a complex area of thickets set on steep slopes.
SW Long Distance - Studland Dunes is at 1:7,500 overprinted
SW O League Long Distance - Durlston CP 1:5,000 overprinted.
Sport Ident using SIAC enabled controls, for those that have a SIAC dibber/card.
Starts 12:00 to 14:00 on Saturday and 10:30 to 12:30 on Sunday
Hire dibber collection and SI amendments from 11:30 on Saturday and from 10:00 on Sunday
Public toilets are available at both of the event venues.
Other facilities include the NT Knoll Beach Cafe (Google Maps) on Day 1 and on Day 2:
Durlston Castle
There is no official event campsite but Woodyhyde Campsite, between Corfe and Langton Matravers is recommended, as is the nearby Burnbake site Burnbake site
Weekend Co-ordinator: Julie Astin (WSX)
Studland Dunes (Saturday)
Planner: Jon Brooke (WSX)
Controller: Ian Peirce (SARUM)
Organiser: Nicki Brooke (WSX)
SW O League (long distance - Sunday)
Planner: Roger Crickmore (WSX)
Controller:Karen French (WIM)
Organiser: Organiser Julie Astin (WSX)
