Completing all Oxfordshire parkruns
There are currently 12 parkrun events in present-day Oxfordshire. The first was Abingdon which started on May 7th 2011 and the newest is University Parks which started on February 5th 2022.
Three events in present-day Oxfordshire: Harcourt Hill, Didcot and Grove Fields, were part of Historic Berkshire. 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.
I first completed the county on July 6th 2019 at Linford Wood.
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.
Abingdon
Completed: March 16th 2019
Time: 25:38
Other routes touched (walk): Thames Path, Oxford Green Belt Way
A small section of the course at Abingdon Lock was in Historic Berkshire
Inaugural: May 7th 2011
Banbury
Completed: July 6th 2019
Time: 26:08
Other routes touched (walk): N/A, although the Western edge goes very to close, and parallel with, the Oxford Canal Walk
Inaugural: September 27th 2014
Bicester
Completed: January 27th 2018
Time: 25:15
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 51
Inaugural: April 16th 2016
Chipping Norton School
Completed: December 14th 2019
Time: 28:13
Other routes touched (walk): Shakespeare’s Way
Inaugural: December 14th 2019
Didcot
Completed: February 9th 2019
Time: 24:48
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 5
Inaugural: February 21st 2015
Grove Fields
Completed: September 11th 2021
Time: 24:53
Other routes touched (walk): Wilts and Berks Canal Towpath
Inaugural: August 21st 2021
Harcourt Hill
Completed: February 16th 2019
Time: 24:55
Other routes touched (walk): Ramblers’ Jubilee Circular Walk
Inaugural: October 18th 2014
Henley-on-Thames
Completed: August 19th 2017
Time: 28:57
Other routes touched: N/A
This event is also part of Chilterns parkrun
Inaugural: July 1st 2017
Horspath
Completed: September 18th 2021
Time: 24:44
Other routes touched (walk): None
Other routes touched (cycle): None, however NCN 57 runs past the entrance and parallel to the southern edge of the course.
Inaugural: August 14st 2021
Oxford
Completed: Christmas Day 2017
Time: 26:17
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 51
Inaugural: November 5th 2011
University Parks
Completed: March 5th 2022
Time: 25:18
Other routes touched: None, although NCN 51 runs parallel to the western edge of the route.
Inaugural: February 5th 2022
Witney
Completed: June 29th 2019
Time: 25:56
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 57
Inaugural: March 10th 2018
Actual course outlines for the parkrun events in present-day Oxfordshire. Shows events that I have already completed.
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