Posts tagged Leicestershire
Completing All Leicestershire parkruns

There are currently 13 parkrun events in the present-day county of Leicestershire of which I have not yet completed any. The first was Braunstone, which started on 25th September 2010, and the newest is Sence Valley Forest Park, which started on 23rd September 2023. The name for having completed all parkrun events in the county is “Flaw-Leics”.

The location of the Market Harborough event was in the historic county of Northamptonshire but is now in present-day Leicestershire.

Numbers exclude 2k Junior parkruns and any events that are not open to the general public such as prisons or armed forces facilities.

All of the Leicestershire parkrun events …

Below are each of the Leicestershire 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.

Abbey Park

 

Beacon Hill Country Park

 

Belvoir Castle

 

Braunstone

 

Conkers

 

Dishley, Loughborough

 

Hastings High School

 

Leicester Victoria

 

Market Bosworth Country Park

 

Market Harborough

 

Melton Mowbray

 

Sence Valley Forest Park

 

Watermead Country Park

 

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parkruns are free, weekly, community 5k events all around the world. I started in December 2012 and have been obsessive about it ever since. See my parkrun Collection page for details.

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Nether Hall: Leicester City High Point

Significance: Highest point of the Unitary Authority of Leicester City
Member of: N/A
Parent Peak: Cleve Hill, NHN = Beacon Hill Leicestershire
Historic County: Leicestershire (of which Bardon Hill is the County Top)
Elevation: 110m
Date “climbed”: July 15th 2023
Coordinates: 52° 39' 8'' N, 1° 2' 54'' W
Map: Leicester & Hinckley Map | The National Forest | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 233
Links: Wikipedia (Leicester City), Peakbagger, Hillbagging

Nether Hall is the high point of the Unitary Authority of Leicester City, within the Ceremonial and Historic Counties of Leicestershire. From the map, while planning the trip, I was expecting a fairly urban area but it turned out to be a pleasant suburb.

This is a quick drive-by with free on-street parking at the eastern end of Keyham Lane West near the junction with Hamilton Lane. The high point is on the eastern side of Hamilton Lane at the entrance to a footpath to the golf course.

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Bardon Hill: Leicestershire County Top

Bardon Hill, Leicestershire County Top

Significance: Highest peak in Leicestershire (Historic CT)
Member of: Marilyn
Parent Peak: Thorpe Cloud. NHN = Thorpe Cloud
Elevation: 278m
Date climbed: October 14th 2014
Coordinates: 52° 42' 52'' N, 1° 19' 14'' W
Route Start / End: On-street parking at Vercor Close, Coalville, LE67 4QS
Route Distance: 4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Route Elevation Change: +/- 91m
Subsidiary tops on route: None
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): Ivanhoe Way
Other routes touched (cycle): none
OS Trig Pillar: TP1022 - Bardon Hill
Map: OS Explorer 245: The National Forest
Guidebook: The UK's County Tops (Jonny Muir), Walking the County High Points of England (David Bathurst)
Links: Wikipedia (Leicestershire), Wikipedia (Bardon Hill), Peakbagger, Hillbagging

OTHER HIGH POINTS IN Leicestershire

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Richard gowerTrek, UK County Tops, Trig Pillar, Leicestershire, EnglandComment