Oaks Park
You can visit the controls in any order, and visit as many or as few as you like.
Please be aware that the Start and posts 4, 7, 8, and 13 are missing. There is no Finish on the map, so you can choose your own. We are aiming to do maintenance on the course during 2024.
| Oaks Park map | FREE |
| Oaks Park map | FREE |
Click the shopping basket above to download free or download the map and notes pages from the Mole Valley Orienteering Club website
Using the Park: Within Oaks Park you will find many places to enjoy. There are woods, meadows, formal gardens, hard surfaced and grassy footpaths. Inside the park there is a café. Please respect the ‘out-of-bounds’ areas and do not go onto the neighbouring golf course or surrounding roads.
Some history: Oaks Park comprises part of the park created for the Earl of Derby in the 1770s around a large house. It is laid out in “Capability Brown style” with a belt of perimeter trees and planting to produce a “natural” landscape. There are still a number of old yew trees but the majority of the old planting was blown down in the October 1987 gales. The park was acquired by the local authority in 1933 and the western half turned into a golf course. The house was demolished in the late 1950s. Can you spot the earthbank which is all that remains of the ha-ha (a ditch) separating the house and park and also the square platform which marks the site of a former tennis court?