WINTER TRAINING ROUTES
mapping of routes set up for us by Colin Mitchell

ROUTE ONE. Fairway on to river path to Civic offices, main street, through centre of Stafford, Foregate, Eccleshall road, Crab lane, Stone road, Rowley street, Marston road, Astonfields, Sandon road, Corporation street backs.
SHORT RUN. Up Holmcroft road, instead of Crab lane.
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ROUTE TWO. ST. Leonard’s, Lichfield road, Baswich lane, Porlock avenue, Stockton lane, Hillcroft avenue, Overhill road, Cannock road, Radford bank and back to club total 5.25 miles.
SHORT RUN. Stockton lane, Lichfield road, down Radford bank.
LONGER RUN. Wildwood ring road. 1.6 miles, total including Wildwood 6.85 miles.
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 ROUTE THREE. ST. Leonard’s, Fairway, Hatherton street, Corporation street backs, Astonfields, Common road, Beaconside, Stone road, to Goal Square, through main street to civic offices, along river path to club.
SHORT RUN. From Astonfields Common road, Marston road, Gaol road, town centre, to civic offices, along river path, back to the club.
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ROUTE FOUR. ST. Leonard’s, Lichfield road, Riverway, Weston road, Tixall road, Avon Rise, Tixall road, Cull avenue, Weston road, Beaconside, Sandon road, Corporation Backs, Weston road, Fairway to ST. Leonard’s. Total 6.5 miles.
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ROUTE FIVE. ST. Leonard’s, Lichfield road, Weeping Cross, Cannock road, Overhill road, Hillcroft avenue, Stockton lane, Porlock Avenue, Yelverton Avenue, Shipston road, Farmdown road, Baswich lane, Radford bank, ST. Leonard’s. Total 6.6 miles.
SHORT RUN. Continue down Porlock Avenue, Baswich lane and back to the club.
LONGER RUN. Wildwood ring.
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 ROUTE SIX. ST. Leonard’s, Malt and Hops, Park street, Newport road, West Way, John Amery drive, Wolverhampton road, Gravel lane, ST. Peters gardens, Rickerscote road, Silkmore lane, Queensville bridge.
SHORT RUN. From West Way, Wolverhampton road, Rickerscote road, Silkmore lane.
LONGER RUN. Circuit of the Meadows.
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ROUTE SEVEN. ST. Leonard’s, Dartmouth street, Cull avenue, Weston road, Westhead avenue, Corporation street backs, Astonfields, Marston round, Rowley street, Eccleshall road, Holmcroft road, Stone road, Co-operative street, Astonfields, Sandon road, Prospect road, Tithe barn road, Westhead avenue, Cull avenue, Tixall road, Dartmouth street and back to the club. Total 6.2 miles.
SHORT RUN. After Holmcroft road, Stone road, Rowley Street to the club.
LONGER RUN. Continue up Eccleshall road, Crab lane, Stone road.
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ROUTE EIGHT. ST. Leonard’s, Silkmore lane, Wolverhampton road, Westway, Barnes road, Oxleathers pub, Sundown drive, Newport road, Friars road, Park street, Lichfield road, into ST. Leonard’s avenue and back to club. Total 6.8 miles
SHORT RUN. Continue up Westway to and turn right down Newport road.
ADDITIONAL RUN. Castlefields village 1.2 miles.
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ROUTE NINE. Down Fairway, Hatherton Street, Corporation street backs, Rangers football club, Marston road, Rowley Street, Stone road, Crab lane, Eccleshall road, Foregate, through centre of Stafford, to civic offices on to river path back to the club.
SHORT RUN. From Rowley street turn left go down Foregate.


ROUTE TEN. ST. Leonard’s, Radford bank, Cannock road, Overhill road, Hillcroft avenue, Stockton lane, Porlock avenue, Baswich lane, Radford bank, to club.
SHORT RUN. Left at Milford road.
LONGER RUN. Wildwood ring.

ROUTE ELEVEN. Fairway, Hatherton street, Corporation street backs, Sandon road, Beaconside, Weston road, Cull avenue, Tixall road, Avon rise, Tixall road, Dartmouth street back to the club.
SHORT RUN. From Cull Avenue right along Tixall road, down Dartmouth street.

ROUTE TWELVE. Fairway, on to river path to civic offices, main street to Goal square, Foregate, Stone road, Beaconside, Common road, Astonfields, Corporation street backs, Hatherton street, back to the club.
SHORT RUN. Down Co-operative Street, to Rangers, Corporation Backs, Hatherton street, back to the club.

ROUTE THIRTEEN. ST Leonard’s, Radford bank, Baswich lane, Farmdown road, Baswich lane, Shipston road, Compton road, Porlock avenue, Stockton lane, Hillcroft avenue, Clevedon avenue, Overhill road, Cannock road, Radford bank, ST. Leonard’s.
SHORT RUN. Right down Porlock Avenue, left into Baswich lane down Radford bank.
LONGER RUN. Wildwood ring.

ROUTE FOURTEEN. ST. Leonard’s Queensville bridge, Silkmore lane, Rickerscote road, ST. Peters gardens, Gravel lane, W’ton road, John Amery drive, Westway, Newport road, Lichfield road, ST. Leonard’s back to club.
SHORT RUN. After John Amery drive, Wolverhampton road, to club.
LONGER RUN. Castlefields estate.

ROUTE FIFTEEN. Fairway, Dartmouth street, Cull Avenue, Westhead avenue, Tithe barn road, Prospect road, Sandon road, Astonfields, Marston road, Co-operative street, Stone road, Holmcroft road, Eccleshall road, Foregate, Goal square through main street, on to river path, to the club.
SHORT RUN. From Marston road, past Jail through town, onto river path.
LONGER RUN. Up Stone road, left down Crab lane, left along Eccleshall road.

ROUTE SIXTEEN. ST. Leonard’s, Lichfield road, Wolverhampton road, Park Street, Friars road, Newport road, Sundown drive, Oxleathers pub, Westway, Wolverhampton road, Silkmore lane, Queensville bridge, ST. Leonard’s back to club.
SHORT RUN. From Newport road left down Westway.
LONGER RUN. from Queensville island, around the Meadows



Want to map out and measure your own routes? Or follow the above routes on a map? Or recommend some new routes for the Harriers to run?
Go to http://www.mapometer.com/en/ OR http://www.mapmyrun.com/create_new OR http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
and find some routes that other folk have mapped or follow the instructions to mark out your own.