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 name for having completed all parkrun events in the county is a “Complete Berk”.
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
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
I completed this event on: July 21st 2018 with a finish time of: 26:11
Other routes touched: N/A
Inaugural: July 14th 2018
Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up
Maidenhead
I first completed this event on: March 28th 2015 with a finish time of: 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
Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up
Newbury
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
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 2019
Links: Event Home Page, Course Page
Sandhurst Memorial
I completed this event on: 28th December 2019 with a finish time of: 26:49
Other routes touched: Blackwater Valley Path
Parts of the course are in Hampshire
Inaugural: December 7th 2019
Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up
Upton Court
I first completed this event on: July 13th 2013 with a finish time of: 23:48
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 61
This event was part of the Historic County of Buckinghamshire
Inaugural: November 24th 2012
Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up
Woodley
I completed this event on: November 16th 2013 with a finish time of: 23:03
Other routes touched: N/A
Inaugural: October 13th 2012
Links: Event Home Page, Course Page, blog7t write-up
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