South-East England parkruns
The parkrun Regionnaire status used to be a major part of parkrun tourism, with South-East England being the largest region. Changes in the parkrun website in 2019 removed the regions making it harder to track completion status. All is not lost though as here’s the complete parkrun guide to what’s in and what’s out of the counties of South-East England.
South East England is the most populous and economically significant region of the UK, excluding London, which it entirely surrounds on its southern and western borders. The region is composed of nine ceremonial counties: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and West Sussex. Geographically, the South East is characterised by its distinctive chalk ridgelines and ancient woodlands. It contains the majority of the North Downs (running through Surrey and Kent) and the entirety of the South Downs National Park (in Hampshire, West Sussex, and East Sussex). Coastal features are dramatic, notably the world-famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent and the coastal resorts like Brighton.
parkrun event numbers per county
There are currently 122 parkrun events in the present-day counties of the South-East region. The Historic Counties, prior to the various boundary changes had a further 34 events, most of these are now part of Greater London.
Notes and exceptions.
Numbers of event above exclude prison parkruns and permanently cancelled events.
Bournemouth and Moors Valley parkruns were part of Historic Hampshire and would have been in Historic South-East England, but are now part of Present-day Dorset, so would be in the South West England region.
Tidworth: South Tidworth where the parkrun takes place was moved from Hampshire into Wiltshire in 1992 but houses there still have Hampshire on their address for post.
Hazelwood was part of Historic Middlesex and is now part of Present-day Surrey.
Parts of Historic Surrey and Kent are now part of Greater London. See the individual pages for those counties for the list of which events are now part of Greater London.
The South-East Counties parkrun pages
Click on each of the images below to go to the page with details of the parkrun events for the county. Isle of Wight is included in the Hampshire page.
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