35th Essar Four Villages Half Marathon

The Essar Four Villages Half Marathon is a popular road race on rural roads around Helsby in Cheshire. Organised by Helsby Running Club, the race is in its 35th year. It is a great race to keep you training over the festive period and as preparation for the spring marathon season! All runners will receive a commemorative medal and goody bag.  

Refund Policy

We understand that sometimes you enter a race then something crops up.  As soon as you enter we incur costs so we have come up with the following refund policy that we hope is simple and fair:

• If you cancel up to and including 30th November 2017: Entry fee minus £2 admin charge
• If you cancel up to and including 23rd December 2017: Entry fee minus £5 admin charge
• After the 23rd December 2017 we are unable to offer a refund

You can transfer your entry using the on-line entry system up to 1st January 2018, after this we send all our race packs to print so are unable to offer transfers after this date.  All transfers must be done by you through this on-line registration site.

This is a winter race and we will be operating full road closures on the route again this year to reduce the possibility of the race being cancelled on the day due to bad weather. Please take note of weather conditions on the day and wear appropriate footwear and clothing for your own safety.  In the unlikely event we do have to cancel the race on the day we are unable to offer a refund. All proceeds from the event go to support local charities and community groups and the continued running of the 4 Villages Half Marathon.

Please note for the safety of runners and marshals we expect entrants to be able to complete the race within 3 hours.