Completing all Berkshire parkruns

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There are currently 12 parkrun events in present-day Berkshire. The first was Reading which started on September 12th 2009 and the newest is Green Park, which started on April 18th 2026. The name for having completed all parkrun events in the county is a “Complete Berk” or a “Total Berk”.

The Historic County of Berkshire has 14 parkrun events. These include Didcot, Harcourt Hill and Grove Fields which were in Historic Berkshire but are now in present-day Oxfordshire. Abingdon gets an honourable 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 (now called Greenham Common) which was the 8th Berkshire event at the time.

Numbers exclude any events that are not open to the general public such as prisons or armed forces facilities.



All of the Berkshire parkrun events …

Below are each of the Berkshire 5k parkrun events in alphabetical order. A few things to note:

  • 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 and elevation profiles show the route at the time that I ran it and may have changed since then. See the Course page in the event’s page on parkrun.org.uk for the current course outline. Note that course outlines are from Garmin data during a specific run and may vary from the officially measured distance.

  • Please contact me if you spot an event that doesn’t have a course map and elevation profile and you would like to donate one from your own run. I’m also interested in maps and elevation profiles for courses that have changed or where there’s regular alternative route (e.g. Horsham). I’ll need a GPX file from your run plus the date. I’ll include a credit for you and will donate £1 to parkrun.


Bracknell

  • I completed this event on: November 28th 2015 with a finish time of: 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

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up

 

California Country

  • I completed this event on: June 1st 2019 with a finish time of: 27:11

  • Other routes touched (walk): California Greenway

  • Inaugural: February 23rd 2019

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 

Dinton Pastures

 

Green Park

 

Greenham Common, Newbury

  • This event was called Newbury parkrun until October 4th 2025

  • I completed this event on: August 18th 2018 with a finish time of: 27:21

  • Other routes touched (walk): Greenham Common Yellow Route

  • Inaugural: February 11th 2012

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up

 

Maidenhead

 

Prospect

  • I completed this event on: July 28th 2018 with a finish time of: 26:42

  • Other routes touched (cycle): N/A, but the southern sections nearly touch NCN 422

  • Inaugural: May 5th 2018

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up

 

Reading

  • I completed this event on: October 12th 2013 with a finish time of: 23:39

  • Other routes touched (walk): Thames Path

  • Other routes touched (walk): NCN 4

  • Inaugural: September 12th 2009

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 

Sandhurst Memorial

 
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Upton Court

 

Victoria Park, Newbury

 

Woodley

 

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