Cusses Gorse Motocross Park

Cusses Gorse shut on 30th September 2024. 22 years on the same patch of Wiltshire chalk and then the landowner wanted the ground back for farming, end of story.

Long Close Farming was the address — Winterbourne Gunner, just north of Salisbury, off Down Barn Road between the A338 and A345. SP4 6JL for post, SP4 6JW for sat nav. Track sat half a mile north of Down Barn West, on hardpack chalk that drained fast in summer and got greasy quick when it rained. Never sandy.

1700 metres on the main circuit. Fifteen jumps. Separate novice loop for kids learning, mini track tucked in alongside. ACU-affiliated. Maxxis ACU British Championship rounds ran there, outdoor supercross too. Most weekends weather allowed the gate opened 10.30 and ran to 4, twenty-minute sessions split fast-expert / club / schoolboy (85cc 2t, 160 4t). Paramedic on site every open day.

The number on the website right to the end was 07766 438254 — phone before leaving home, always, because chalk doesn’t care about your forecast. Facebook page is still up; closure-era photos and final-meeting footage live there.

For somewhere current to ride the South West regional listing covers active clubs across Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. Pinhoe & District at Whiteway Barton is the closest match for an adult-and-youth ladder.