Part 1 (Masters, Experts and Novices)

TC1 at SH67 in 6813

Proceed via (in order)
              
           

TC2 at next X, approach from SW.

Part 2 (Masters Only)

From TC2 proceed via these (not in order) points

           (6014)  (41)           
              

TC3 at end of last plot.

This style of route card is usually well liked, but the variety of "shortest" routes in part 2 caused much consternation for some, yet the route card winner scored 10 and completed it in under one hour!

The shortest route for Part 1 was well defined. Only one point affecting RC3 (see below). Those of you who passed through the m of Denmead did not have the shortest route, I'm afraid.

Part 2 was quite a different matter and a nightmare for me! I learnt a valuable lesson here, should I ever be asked to design a future TTR. Some of you weren't at all shy about telling me how bad this was but thanks to the competitor who constructively pointed out that simply giving the end square required would have solved a lot of the problems.

Hours have been spent drawing and measuring every different route you came up with. Fortunately for me, I had asked for letters (invaluable here) and finish GS which allowed me to see which routes had been chosen. Now, I'm a mathematician and route 6A is the shortest, so if you had that one, well done! However, since the differences in total route length for four other routes were only up to 3%, all five routes 6A to 6E and their corresponding answers have been accepted. The only definite error determined was those of you who picked up letters coming north through the wood up to Woodend. You could not take this route and go through both sides of the pictured loop. See the different PDF map solutions by choosing the relevant link here: 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6E. See the different display map solutions by choosing the relevant link here: 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6E.

RC1 - After provisional results, an eagle-eyed Andy Gibson pointed out he had used the white in pic3. So 4 or 5 was accepted for this answer, as this white wasn't an intentional trick on my part and I didn't want to penalise other competitors (Experts and Novices in particular) for not using the white.

RC3 - Passing through the ea of Denmead, both ea and ae were allowed as you passed through them simultaneously. After that, there were two choices of route up to the white which were too close to call on length, so you could have the ss of Crossways or not.

Route Card winner: Steve Barber