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Petworth End of SummerTime 100 @ 09:00 (GMT)Stage 1 (46k): leaving the Start Control you head N, eventually passing the Hampers Green Community Centre Hall before turning towards Balls Cross avoiding the main A283. Soon you arrive in Kirdford before heading N to Plaistow (INFO). A short section N of Plaistow before you are heading W through Chiddingfold and near to Combe Common (INFO). You now head S before passing through Lurgashall, to the boundary of Petworth House. After the only significant climb of the stage, you are soon descending through Upperton joining the A272 at Tillington. After a short section on the A272 to Petworth you arrive back at the Hampers Green Village Hall, Petworth to control.
Stage 2 (40k): initially on a main road you head S out of Petworth towards Duncton Hill, but instead of climbing it you turn W towards Cocking on country lanes. Back on a main road, and the easier climb out of Cocking you head S to the village of Singleton (INFO) before continuing E again on country lanes towards Upwaltham. Re-joining the main road, you head N back to the Petworth and Hampers Green Village Hall control, but with a DESCENT of Duncton Hill.
Stage 3 (26k): returning to the centre of Petworth you take the High Street near the Start Control to join the original main road route E to Fittleworth (INFO just after the village). From Fittleworth you head N on country lanes and the climb of Bedham Hill before joining the A272 into Wisborough Green. After the final INFO you head towards Kirdford before taking quieter country lanes towards Petworth, before a short downhill section of the A272 before the Arrivee at the Hampers Green Village Hall.
https://www.audax.uk/event-details/10725-the_petworth_end_of_summer_time_100_Petworth End of SummerTime 200 @ 08:30 (GMT)Stage 1 (36km): initially leaving Petworth North on a main road before you turn West through Lurgashall and Fernhurst on country lanes. Further country lanes after Fernhurst take you West to Elmers Marsh before you head North to Liphook (INFO). From Liphook, you head Southwest on the former route of the A3 to Petersfield and the well-used Esso Petrol Station to CONTROL.
Stage 2 (49km): from Petersfield you head Southeast to South Harting before climbing Harting Hill over the South Downs, and then passing through Chilgrove to Lavant. After a short section on a main road in Lavant, you are soon skirting the North of Chichester to the second INFO. You return to Petworth via a main road, that includes a descent of Duncton Hill, before returning to Hampers Green Village Hall to CONTROL.
Stage 3 (35k): returning through Petworth you are soon heading Southeast through Pulborough and Storrington into Steyning. Passing though Steyning you take the lanes through Botolphs and Coombes to the traffic lights crossing the A27 for INFO.
Stage 4 (35k): retracing back to and through Steyning, before heading North to Partridge Green. From here you continue heading North on minor roads to join the A281 for a few hundred metres into Lower Beeding. You then remain on the B2110 into Handscross, before arriving at the Pease Pottage Services (near Crawley) to CONTROL.
Stage 5 (56k): leaving Pease Pottage you head West to Colgate before heading North through Faygate and Rusper. From Rusper you head Northwest towards Capel. A short section on the A24 is needed before turning West towards Cranleigh. The main road could have been used, but you are taken down the nicer route of Were Street, passing through Paynes Green, Oakwoodhill and Walliswood before reaching the outskirts of Ewhurst. Back on a main road you are soon in Cranleigh (INFO) before heading Southwest, passing through Alfold, Loxwood and Kirdford, before arriving for Arrivee at the Hampers Green Village Hall.
https://www.audax.uk/event-details/10724-petworth_end_of_summer_time_200Anton
