Completing all Berkshire parkruns
There are currently 10 parkrun events in present-day Berkshire. The first was Reading which started on September 12th 2009 and the newest is Sandhurst Memorial which started on December 7th 2019.
The Historic County of Berkshire has 12 parkrun events. It includes Didcot, Harcourt Hill and Grove Fields which were in Historic Berkshire by are now in present-day Oxfordshire. Abingdon gets an honorable mention as, although it was in Historic Oxfordshire, there’s a small section by Abingdon Lock that was in Historic Berkshire.
Upton Court is part of present-day Berkshire but was part of Historic Buckinghamshire.
I first completed the county on August 18th 2018 at Newbury which was the 8th Berkshire event at the time. The 2 newer events, also completed, are California Country and Sandhurst Memorial.
The interactive maps below take you to the approximate location for the course, typically the centre of the park. See the course instructions in the parkrun page for each event for specific directions to the start. Course maps show the route at the time that I ran it and may have changed since then.
Bracknell
Completed: November 28th 2015
Time: 26:13
Other routes touched (walk): N/A, but the western side runs parallel and very close to the Wokingham Way
Inaugural: April 4th 2015
California Country
Completed: June 1st 2019
Time: 27:11
Other routes touched (walk): California Greenway
Inaugural: February 23rd 2019
Dinton Pastures
Completed: July 21st 2018
Time: 26:11
Other routes touched: N/A
Inaugural: July 14th 2018
Maidenhead
First Completed: March 28th 2015
Fastest Time: 24:17
Other routes touched (walk): N/A, but the southern tip nearly touches the Maidenhead Boundary Walk
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 4
Inaugural: March 21st 2015
Newbury
Completed: August 18th 2018
Time: 27:21
Other routes touched (walk): Greenham Common Yellow Route
Inaugural: February 11th 2012
Prospect
Completed: July 28th 2018
Time: 26:42
Other routes touched (cycle): N/A, but the southern sections nearly touch NCN 422
Inaugural: May 5th 2018
Reading
Completed: October 12th 2013
Time: 23:39
Other routes touched (walk): Thames Path
Other routes touched (walk): NCN 4
Inaugural: September 12th 2019
Sandhurst Memorial
Completed: 28th December 2019
Time: 26:49
Other routes touched: Blackwater Valley Path
Parts of the course are in Hampshire
Inaugural: December 7th 2019
Upton Court
Completed: July 13th 2013
Time: 23:48
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 61
This event was part of the Historic County of Buckinghamshire
Inaugural: November 24th 2012
Woodley
Completed: November 16th 2013
Time: 23:03
Other routes touched: N/A
Inaugural: October 13th 2012
Actual course outlines for the parkrun events in present-day Berkshire.
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