Tintern Fete Hill Race
BS. 4.2km/215m
PM
Saturday 28th June 2026.
2pm.
£5.00
Entry on the day
Event HQ:
Recreation field,
Nr Anchor Inn,
Tintern,
NP16 6&E.
Records: First year
Organiser: Richard Newhouse
richardnewhouse42@gmail.com
07584 287887
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The Hill Race is a new addition to the long-running annual Tintern Village Fete, held on the last Saturday in June. In a format traditional for village shows, the race will start and finish in the Fete Field, with runners surmounting the hill behind the field.
In this case the course exits the field onto a brief road section - which will be well marshalled - and then it heads over the Wireworks Bridge and along the former railway track for 200m or so. It then forks left up the stone staircase, and keeps going up! The first half of the ascent is up a steep and rocky path, and then the upper section is up a forestry road. On the far side of the top Offa's Dyke path there will be a turnaround marker. The route back down dog-legs to the left along the forest road, and then follows the Shorncliff Climbers Path back down to the top of the stone staircase, from where the course retraces itself over the bridge and along the road to a downhill finish in the Fete Field and to huge applause.
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