Bedworth Miners Welfare Park

Bedworth Miners Welfare Park is managed by Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council who grant funded the production of these maps and courses as part of their Get Active For Life scheme. There are courses suitable for complete novices through to experienced orienteers and one is fully accessible using paved paths. As the name suggests, the park is situated on old colliery workings and mixes urban parkland with rougher terrain. One fairly unusual installation in the park is a well used disc golf course which is well worth doing while you are there. Please take care and watch out for disc golfers when doing the courses.

All courses are based on the MapRun phone App which needs to be loaded prior to doing the courses. Instructions on downloading and using the App are shown in the instructions document which you can download from here along with your map.

The park was remapped in 2022 and new courses were planned after the construction of new mountain bike tracks in the park. Please take care when crossing or in the vicinity of the mountain bike tracks. The Beginners Accessible course does not cross the tracks.

There are three courses available as below.

Beginners Accessible - the shortest course at about 1.7km is based in the town park area and is fully accessible. It is ideal for people trying orienteering for the first time or those new to phone orienteering. The course can be completed by remaining on paved paths although it is possible to go across the park in places. Controls are located on easily visible features.

Intermediate - around 2.25km and visits some of the rougher terrain around the old colliery slag heap. It also includes some control sites on ground features which are not as obvious as those on the Beginners Accessible course. This course is ideal for newcomers to orienteering who wish to step up and it is also suitable for regular orienteers training on 'sprint' type courses.

Long - will be over 4.5kms total distance and uses both the town park and the old golf course country park area. Suitable for regular orienteers and also for newcomers who wish to test their skills a little further. It mixes some longer legs which will test speed and also some more complex shorter legs where care is needed.