I tried it once and decided I was not a fan! XC is tough! I just don’t think you get many ‘casual’ runners at XC like you do road races.
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True and you can’t enter without being in a running club normally.
I used to run three leagues, must have more of a masochistic streak than I realised!
Liverpool & District - high standard with occasional Olympic middle distance athletes running round grotty Liverpool parks. Once had kids throwing rocks at runners (Stadt Moers park)
Cheshire - even duller courses round football pitches, no wonder the league caved in
North Wales - all the best courses were here, looking back should have ditched the others 
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I like XC!!!
Always have done.
Ran them as a youngster and loved them then.
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One year the county champs was 12k lapping a school field, dreadful, and another was Kent Fairground with us literally crossing a ploughed farm field, impossible to run well.
My favourite league race was Somerhill School, my son is now doing it and i get jealous. Thats hard, proper hilly and muddy. Nothing comes close to the Southerns though at Parliament Hill. Was 15k (now only 12) and was knee deep mud every year. Being lapped on a 3 lap course is embarrasing though 
the top guys floated over the bog, i sank, every step was draining. i lost a shoe one year it was that bad. 1.18 i think my best was winners went 42ish. Crazy times for over 9 miles of mud and hills
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Bangor was my favourite, running up a hill right underneath the old Menai bridge
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