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18 Jan 2005, 14:16 (Ref:1203789) | #1 | ||
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British Hillclimb Champions 1947 to 2004
Mays Raymond 1947 2.0s ERA D-Type
Mays Raymond 1948 2.0s ERA D-Type Allard Sydney 1949 3.7 Allard-Steyr Poore Dennis 1950 3.8s Alfa-Romeo 8C-35 Wharton Ken 1951 1.1 Cooper-JAP Mk 4 Wharton Ken 1952 1.0s Cooper-JAP Mk 4 Wharton Ken 1953 1.0s Cooper-JAP Mk 4: 2.0s ERA B-Type Wharton Ken 1954 1.1s Cooper-JAP Mk 4: 2.0s ERA B-Type Marsh Tony 1955 1.1s Cooper-JAP Mk 8: 1.1 Cooper-Jap Marsh Tony 1956 1.1 Cooper-JAP Marsh Tony 1957 1.1 Cooper-JAP Boshier-Jones David 1958 1.1 Cooper-JAP Boshier-Jones David 1959 1.1 Cooper-JAP Boshier-Jones David 1960 1.1 Cooper-JAP Good David 1961 1.1 Cooper-JAP Owen Arthur 1962 2.5 Cooper-Climax FPF T53 Westbury Peter 1963 2.6s Felday-Daimler SP250 Westbury Peter 1964 2.5 Ferguson-Climax FPF P99 4-w-d Marsh Tony 1965 4.25 Marsh-GM Marsh Tony 1966 4.25 Marsh-GM Marsh Tony 1967 4.5 Marsh-GM 4-w-d Lawson Peter 1968 2.1 BRM P67 4-w-d Hepworth David 1969 4.5 Hepworth-Chevrolet 4-w-d Williamson Sir Nicholas 1970 5.0 McLaren-Chevrolet M10A Hepworth David 1971 5.0 Hepworth-GM 4-w-d Williamson Sir Nicholas 1972 2.0 March-Ford/Hart BDA 712S MacDowel Mike 1973 5.0 Brabham-Repco 740 BT36X MacDowel Mike 1974 5.0 Brabham-Repco 740 BT36X Lane Roy 1975 5.0 McRae-Chevrolet GM1 Lane Roy 1976 5.0 McRae-Chevrolet GM1 Douglas-Osborn Alister 1977 3.0 Pilbeam-Cosworth DFV R22 Franklin David 1978 2.0 March-BMW M12 772 Griffiths Martyn 1979 2.2 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP40 Cramer Chris 1980 2.2 March-Hart 420R 782 Thomson James 1981 2.5 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP40 Bolsover Martin 1982 2.5 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP50: 2.5 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP40 Bolsover Martin 1983 2.8 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP50 Bolsover Martin 1984 2.5 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP43: 2.8 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP50 Cramer Chris 1985 2.5 Gould-Hart 420R 84 Griffiths Martyn 1986 2.8 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP53H Griffiths Martyn 1987 2.8 Pilbeam-Hart 420R MP53H Wardle Charles 1988 5.0 Pilbeam-Repco 740 MP47 Rowan Ray 1989 2.8 Roman-Hart 420R IVH Griffiths Martyn 1990 3.5 Pilbeam-Cosworth DFR MP58 Griffiths Martyn 1991 3.5 Pilbeam-Cosworth DFR MP58 Lane Roy 1992 4.0 Pilbeam-Cosworth DFL MP58 Grace David 1993 3.5 Pilbeam-Cosworth DFR MP58 Grace David 1994 3.5 Pilbeam-Cosworth DFR MP58 Priaulx Andy 1995 4.0 Pilbeam-Cosworth DFL MP58 Lane Roy 1996 4.0 Pilbeam-Judd EV MP58 Moran Roger 1997 4.0 Pilbeam-Judd EV MP72 Grace David 1998 3.5 Gould/Ralt-Cosworth DFR GR37 Grace David 1999 3.5 Gould/Ralt-Cosworth DFR GR37 Grace David 2000 3.5 Gould/Ralt-Cosworth DFR GR37 Wight Jnr Graeme 2001 2.5 Gould-Cosworth GR51 Wight Jnr Graeme 2002 2.5 Gould-Cosworth GR51 Fleetwood Adam 2003 3.3 Gould-Cosworth XB GR55 Fleetwood Adam 2004 3.3 Gould-Cosworth XB GR55 |
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18 Jan 2005, 15:52 (Ref:1203842) | #2 | ||
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!953 and 1954 surely it should be ERA D-Type as Wharton acquired R4D from Raymond Mays
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Mays sold R4D to Ron Flockhart
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19 Jan 2005, 01:43 (Ref:1204327) | #4 | ||
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Did the championship consist of several races? For early years I know only Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb.
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Off the top of my head: Shelsey Walsh, Prescott, Bouley Bay (Jersey), Rest and be Thankful (Scotland), Great Auclum, plus a few others.
There may be something on Leif Snellman's site, but I suspect that concentrates on European Mountain Championship venues. |
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British Hillclimb Venues 1947 to 2004
Barbon Manor - 1963 to date
Bo'ness - 1947 to 1966 Bouley Bay - 1947 to date Craigantlet - 1947 to date Doune - 1969 to 1963; 1974 to date Dyrham Park - 1963 to 1966 Fintray - 1979 to 1994 Great Auclum - 1959 to 1974 Gurston Down - 1971 to date Harewood - 1964 to date Le Val des Terres - 1973 to date Lhergy Frissel - 1994 to 1998 Longleat - 1965 Loton Park - 1963 to 1967; 1969 to date Pontypool Park - 1972 to 1977 Prescott - 1947 to date Rest-and-be-Thankful - 1950 to 1969 Shelsley Walsh - 1947 to date Stapleford - 1959 to 1961 Tholt-y-Will - 1968 to 1969 Westbrook Hay - 1959 to 1962 Wiscombe Park - 1962 to date NB some years events were missed out - notably due to foot and mouth |
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Other British Hillclimb venues used during this period (not necessarily as part of the British Championship though):
Benbradagh, County Londonderry. Definitely used in 1977. Blandford - used in 1948. Bodium - used in the 1950s. Brunton - used in the 1940s and 1950s. Cairn Castle, County Antrim. Used in 1967. Cricket St Thomas Croft - used first in 1977. Eagle's Rock, County Londonderry. Used in 1967. Finlake Park - used from mid 1990s. Fintray - was first used in 1966. Firle - used on the 4th September 1955. Great Auclum - was first used back in 1938. Kinkell Braes - used from the late 1960s. Knockagh, nr Belfast - used in the 1950s. Lydstep, Wales - used in the 1950s. Oddicombe - used from the 1960s. Penrice Castle - used in the early 1970s. Spelga Pass, NI - first used in 1962. Trengwainton - used in the 1950s. Westbrook Hay - used at least since 1955. The real heyday of British Hillclimbing seems to have been in the 1920s, when there were many more venues used, until the crash at Kop curtailed activities. |
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Too many to list?
I'll see if I can dig out the list I put together about British Hillclimb venues. There were well over 100. I did pass it on to the MSA when they were doing research into lapsed venues as they didn't seem to know.
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20 Jan 2005, 11:34 (Ref:1205503) | #9 | |
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The pre-Kop era is not really comparable as most of those events were on public roads (and of doubtful legality). Something of a parallel with "road" rallies in mainland UK up to the point in 1988 when "real time" 30mph timing became mandatory!
Lack of venues, particularly in the South East quarter of England where there are now none, is a desperate problem for the future of the sport at grass roots level (where young newcomers can be introduced to competition and got away from dangerous driving on public roads). Anyone with any thoughts whatsoever on potential new venues is urged to share ideas - even on here - they can be passed on to appropriate people to investigate. |
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Alms Hill Nr Stonor
Ambergate Angel Bank Aston Hill Nr Aston Clinton, Tring Backwell Baitings Dam Nr Ripponden Barbon Manor - North East of Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria Beacon Hill Nr Woodhouse Eaves Benbradagh, County Londonderry Birdlip Hill Birkhill Nr Moffatt Blandford Camp Bo'ness Nr Grangemouth Bottledown, on the Little Burstead to Billericay road Bottledown Hill Bouley Bay, Jersey Bridehead Nr Dorchester Brookland's Test Hill Broughton Hill, Nr Kettleby Brunton, Nr Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire Bully Hill, Nr Market Raisen to Grimsby Buttrill's Hill Caerphilly Cairn Castle, North of Larne Cairn O'Mount Castel Farm, Nr Llangynydd, Nr Bridgend Castle Hill, Lostwithiel Catterick Army Camp Chalfont St Peter Chatcombe Pitch, Nr Cheltenham Clerk Hill, Nr Whalley Coalport Hill Corkscrew Hill, aka Lisdoonvarna Cornist Hill, Manchester Craigantlet, East of Belfast Creg-Ny-Baa, Isle of Man Cricket St Thomas Croft, Holywood, County Down Crondown Hill, on the Deddington to Chipping Norton road Cruagh Cultra, Ulster Folk Museum, Holywood, County Down Dalgrain Bray, Nr Sorn Dalton Bank Dancer's End Dashwood Hill Detling Dinmore Hill, on the Hereford to Leominster road Doune, Off the Callendar road from Doune Drumhoc, County Down Dungarvan, Tipperary Dunmail Raise, Grasmere Durris, Nr Stonehaven Dyrham Park, Nr Bath Eagles Rock, County Londonderry Enniskerry Ewelme Bank Fintray House, North West of Aberdeen Firle (Bo Peep Hill), Sussex Downs Fordingbridge, Nr Southampton Forrestburn, East of Airdrie Frome's Hill, on the Hereford to Worcester road Furnace Grange Garford Garron Point, County Antrim Garrowby Hill, East Yorkshire Gatacre Glendoe Glendu Hill Goodwood House, North East of Chichester Gorcott Hill, Nr Alcester Gransden Lodge Gravel Hill, Hexton Great Auclum, Burghfield Common, Nr Reading Great Farthingloe Farm Greve De Lecq, Jersey Greyhound Hill, East of Kedal Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire Grindleford Bridge/Padley Wood Gurston Down, Broadchalke, Nr Salisbury Hand Post Hill, Middlesex Harewood, Nr Leeds Harewood Bank, Nr Leeds Harley Bank, Wolverhampton Harleyford Haynes Park Hazlewood Hill, on the Duffield to Belper road Hemerdon Quarry Hepolite Scar Hermitage Hill, Bridgenorth Heyden Bridge, Nr Huddersfield Hill Cliff Lane, Turnditch Hill Moor Road, Meltham, Nr Huddersfield Hindhead Hill, Surrey Holme Moss, Holme to Woodhead, Nr Holmefirth Horndean Hurstwood Joel Park Kettleby Hill, Nottingham Kidd's Hill, Southsea Killorglin Hill Kingsdown Hill, Bath Kinkell Braes Kirkfield Bank Knockagh Knockalla Knockhill Kop Hill, Princess Risborough Laindon Two Church Hill, on the Billericay to Gravesend road Le Val Des Terres, Guernsey Leighton Hall, Nr Carnforth Lerghy Frissel, Isle of Man Lippiett's Hill, Epping Forest Little Gruinard Lock-Na-Craig Longleat, West of Warminster Loton Park, West of Shrewsbury Lulworth Cove Lydstep Haven Lys-y-Fran, North East of Haverfordwest Mancetter Middle House Hill Mount Bingham, Jersey Mucklow Hill, Halesowen Naish House, Nr Bristol Nettleton Oakamoor, Nottingham Oddicombe, North West of Torquay Offley Hill, Hitchin Olivers Mount, Scarborough Paddy Slacks, Glenlude Hill, Innerleithen Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire Peeble Combe Penkridge Park Peppard Village Hill, Nr Reading Petersham Hill, Richmond-upon-Thames Petit Bot, Guernsey Pontypool Park Porlock Toll Road, West Somerset Post Hill Pot Bank, Harrogate Prescott, North East of Cheltenham Race Hill, Lewes Ragley Park Ragpath Slide, Lanchester Rest & Be Thankful, Glen Croe Rhubina Hill, South Wales River Hill, Tunbridge Wells Rivington Pike, Horwich, Nr Bolton Rockingham Hill, Nottingham Rosedale Abbey Bank, Nr Bradford Rotherfield Park Rumster, North West of Lybster Saltersford Church, Nr Macclesfield Scammonden Dam, West of Huddersfield Shap Fell, Nr Kendall Shap Wells, Nr Kendall Sharnden Hill, Nr Mayfield Shelsley Walsh, North West of Worcester Shibden Park Snake Pass, on the Glossop to Ashopton road South Harting, on the Chichester to Petersfield road Spelga Pass, Newry Spread Eagle, on the Shaftsbury to Blandford road, Nr Melbury St Audries Bay, Channel Islands Stanmer Park, Falmer, Nr Brighton Stapleford, Nr Abridge, Essex Staxton Bank, Great Driffield Road, Nr Scarborough Strathclyde Park Styal Kop, Rugeley Sulham Hill, Reading Sun Rising Hill, Banbury Sutton Bank Syonfin, Omagh Syston Park, Lincolnshire Taddington Hill, Buxton The Sloc, Isle of Man Tholt-y-Will, Isle of Man Thonock Hill, Gainsborough Thundersley Church, Nr Hadleigh, Essex Tilburstowe Hill, Godstone Green Tougis Hill, Alderney Tregrehan, East of St Austell Trengwainton, North West of Penzance Tumnel Bridge Valence School Waddington Pike, Nr Clitheroe Waterworks Hill, North West London Weatheroak Hill Werneth Low, Hyde Werrington Park, North West of Launceston Westbrook Hay, Nr Berkhamsted Westerham Hill, Catford Westmount Road, Jersey Whitbridge Hill, Edinburgh Why Not Hill Wiscombe Park, South of Honiton Woburn Park Woodcock Hill, Elstree to Barnet Yearby Hill, 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If it's Hillclimb Venues in Britain (as opposed to British Championship round venues) Finlake Park nr Bovey Tracey in Devon is missing.
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Ooooooops!
Thanks for the two MIAs I'll add them to the list - told you it was incomplete!
Mind you having been to Finlake for the inaugural hillclimb I should have spotted that one! |
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26 Apr 2007, 09:11 (Ref:1900743) | #16 | ||
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High Auldgirth in Dumfriesshire. Did a couple of hillclimbs there in the early 90's
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Quite a few of those venues are in the Republic of Ireland.
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Sadly a lot of the great hillclimb venues no longer exist in the South. Cruagh and Enniskerry used to be fabulous with many of the circuit brigade coming out in their Atlantics, prod and mod saloons etc... Both fell victims to Dublin's 'tiger economy' expansion. It would be great to see the British Hillclimb Championship make a visit to Ireland, maybe even with some new venues. Unlike the England/Wales when the roads are closed, the speed limits cease to exist, so there's amazing scope for some great public roads.
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Can anybody claim to have driven at all/most of them
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Hurstwood Hillclimb.
Hurstwood hillclimb was the first motorsport venue I remember visiting aged 8 years in 1964.
If I remember correctly it was held on water authority roads near Hurstwood reservoir. Hurstwood is a hamlet near the larger village of Worsthorne a few miles from Burnley,Lancashire. |
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Also missing from Steve Wilkinson's (great) list is Hudson Road Mill in Leeds. It used the roads around the Burton (Clothing) factory in Leeds. There was a fair old rise in the course. I spectated there several times in the late 50s/early 60s and a feature was that some of the roads had raised pavements alongside them which often caused damage as cars took a wide line in or out of the corners.
The events were organised by the BARC Yorkshire Centre (based in Leeds) and they moved to a permanent location at the farm owned by Arnold Burton (son of Burton's founder) at Harewood, a few miles north of Leeds. |
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