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Loton Park Hill Climb
Camping/RVs
Course
Paddock
Viewing
Overall site layout
For course layouts please see ‘Walking the course’ section
Date of our last visit: May 2024
Location: Shrewsbury
Event type: Hillclimb
Address: Loton Park Hillclimb, Loton Park, Alberbury, Shropshire, SY5 9AG
Telephone: 01902 896 699
Website: www.hdlcc.com
Circuit approach: Full road
Circuit entrance: Wide gates
Catering facilities: Permanent café, burger bar and licenced bar
Toilet facilities: Portaloos
Getting around – level/types of surfaces: Tarmac and well kept grass verges, all with steep hills
Circuit approach
Circuit entrance
As a competitor
Organising club: Hagley & District LCC
Club website: www.hdlcc.com
Support vehicle/trailer location: Single seaters can be allocated a paddock space lower down where it is level and the support can stay with them. For everybody else the support vehicle / trailer has to be moved up the adjacent hill.
Paddock surface: Tarmac & grass verges
Paddock power: No
Paddock water: No
PA announcements: Yes
Return running type: Batches
Numbered paddock bays: Yes
Scrutineering: Stay with your car in your paddock space and the scrutineers will come to you
Timing supplier: www.resultsman.co.uk
Competitor notes: Camping area is on the hillside adjacent to the paddock area but trailers and support vehicles cannot stay in the paddock during the day.
Camping
Camping permitted before an event: Yes
Camping location: On site – small charge
Camping ground conditions: On steep hillside adjacent to the paddock, stay on grass verges alongside the tarmac road or there is a series of cut outs of gravel and grass to provide level platforms cut into the hillside.
Camping power: No
Camping water: Yes
Camping approach and entrance: Same as track
As a spectator
Spectator notes: Prepared platforms with seating + can walk alongside most of the course
Accessibility
Spectator accessibility notes: All the site is on a steep hillside but most of the paddock is on tarmac or well kept grass verges; however the slope up to the camping area and the café can be very steep, but they have signposted disabled viewing from a decked platform area
Camping accessibility notes: Level wedges cut out of very steep hill
Our experience at this event
Walking the course
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