How far is the Lamplighter 40?

The Lamplighter 40 is one distance: Lamplighter 40 (64.4 km / 40.0 miles).

Is the Lamplighter 40 course marked?

No. The Lamplighter 40 is not a marked course. You are expected to navigate it yourself.

SilverBack Trails Lamplighter 40

Goathland Village Hall, GoathlandSat, 19 Jun 2027

Forty miles of the North York Moors between sunset and sunrise.

64.4 km

40 miles

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The course

Start time not confirmed yet — check with the organiser.

What you’re in for

A circular run of about 40 miles over the North York Moors from Goathland Village Hall, timed to the shortest night of the year. You register an hour before last light, the race starts when the Lamplighter lights the lamp at the hall gate, and you are racing the sunrise back. Moorland, forest and good tracks, nearly all of it in the dark. Lamplighter 20 runs alongside on the same night.

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Train for it: routes near the start

Routes starting within 20 km of Goathland Village Hall, Goathland, nearest first. Each one has a free GPX file and a TRP grade, so you can rehearse the ground before race day.

MODERATE

Hole of Horcum

11.0km · 239m climb · Loop · 8.0km away

A genuinely dramatic piece of landscape - a mile-wide natural amphitheatre - covered properly on foot rather than just glimpsed from the roadside viewpoint everyone else stops at.

MODERATE

Whitby and Sandsend Coast

16.1km · 302m climb · Loop · 11km away

You run the clifftop Cleveland Way from Whitby to Sandsend, high above the North Sea, with the ruined abbey behind you and the wide sweep of the bay ahead the whole way.

VERY HARD

Fryupdale Trail Marathon Route

48.3km · 1,015m climb · Loop · 11km away

This crosses a string of side dales that most visitors to the Moors never see, so instead of the honeypot villages you get genuinely remote heather moorland and steep-sided dales one after another.

HARD

Great Fryup Dale from Yorkshire Cycle Hub

25.4km · 660m climb · Loop · 12km away

You get both halves of the Moors in one loop: the green, sheltered dale of Great Fryup with its old farms, and the wide purple heather ridges that separate it from Little Fryup.

Checked Jul 2026

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How to enter

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Common questions

: The Lamplighter 40 is one distance: Lamplighter 40 (64.4 km / 40.0 miles).
: No course file for the Lamplighter 40 yet, so there's no measured climb here. When SilverBack Trails publish one, this fills in.
: Not graded yet. A TRP grade is worked out from distance and climb measured off the course file, and there isn't one for the Lamplighter 40 yet.
: No. The Lamplighter 40 is not a marked course. You are expected to navigate it yourself.
: We don't hold a compulsory kit list for the Lamplighter 40. SilverBack Trails confirm mandatory kit in their race information, usually in the final instructions.
: We don't hold published time limits for the Lamplighter 40. If SilverBack Trails set cut-offs, they'll be in the race information.
: We don't hold a checkpoint list for the Lamplighter 40. What's on the table varies a lot between races, so check the SilverBack Trails race information rather than turning up expecting food.
: Not yet — we don't hold a course file for the Lamplighter 40. Some organisers only send the GPX to entrants. If we get one, it goes up free, with no sign-up.
: Sat, 19 Jun 2027. Not open yet.