Completing all Berkshire parkruns

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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

 

Maidenhead

 

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

 
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Upton Court

 

Woodley

 

Actual course outlines for the parkrun events in present-day Berkshire.


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