The Olympics come to Hadleigh
Work has started on the Olympic cross-country mountain bike course being constructed in Hadleigh for the 2012 Games.
The 5.1km loop is being built at Hadleigh Farm .The venue covers a 550 acre site including beautiful grassland the woodland of Hadleigh Farm: land owned by the Salvation Army. It also includes the surrounding countryside of Hadleigh Country Park.
The terrain is hilly with open grass land covered by low shrubbery. The site offers some fantastic gradients for Mountain Biking and great viewing opportunities for spectators.
The course will be set against the backdrop of the 700-year-old ruins of Hadleigh Castle.
A new temporary Mountain Bike course will be created within Hadleigh Farm. The Mountain Bike Course will be prepared with temporary grandstands and facilities to be built in the lead up to the Games in 2012. The Olympic cross-country racing will take place over the weekend of 11-12 August 2012, with the women's race on the Saturday and the men's on the Sunday. Around 20,000 tickets will be available for each day.
Organisers say that after the Games they "will work closely with our partners including Essex County Council and the Salvation Army to explore what course will be left in place for future use".
Hadleigh Farm has been chosen as the alternative to the original site for the Mountain Bike competition, Weald Country Park. The alternative was found after a change in requirements for the sport that resulted in the need for a more technical and challenging course.
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Each park will have a different codeword. When you have collected the codewords from the other Essex Country Parks send all the codewords to SXParx (via GC.com) to receive a free entry voucher into Marsh Farm or Cressing Temple.