Site Details
Address
Long Mynd, The Portway, Asterton, Church Stretton, Shropshire
Grid Reference
340322 - 291547

Local authority
South Shropshire DC

Sport England region
West Midlands

Competitions and events
The site has held regional championships or events and an inter-regional standard of competition or event , and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services  necessary for that level of competition or event

• Midland Regionals (dates?)
• No competitions in 2001 due to foot and mouth

Training
The site has held regional team training or events, or individual elite training or participation for that or any of its disciplines, and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services necessary for that level of training or event.

• Weekly courses in summer with professional staff
• training available at participation and performance levels.
• Launch available by winch, aerotow and bungey

Heritage
A heritiage site is one which has been used continually or a for a long time by that sport and which cannot be recreated in a different location.

• Established 1934.
• Exceptional, historic site, renowned for its ridge and mountain wave soaring

Facilities strategy
The site has been identified as of international or national importance in that sport’s strategic planning documents.

• BGA Strategic Plan 2001 - 2006.1

Physical characteristics
Identification of those characteristics, which if lost, would jeopardise the quality of the site.

• Ridges and location for lee waves from Welsh mountains.
• Airspace is controlled at approx. 17,000 ft above the site
• Airspace free to the south-east, enabling 20,000 ft climbs.

Number of users
The site is important because of the numbers of people using it from any level of that sport

• Home to Midland GC with 162 members;
• Adjacent to Birmingham population catchment.
  

Additional Information

• Cross-countries are mainly to the south and east.
• Good parking/camping & clubhouse.