Chiltern parkruns

There’s only 4 parkrun events in the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, but the Chilterns covers a much larger area. I’ve not seen a common definition, so I’ve decided to select the boundaries marked by the rivers Thames, Colne and Lea. Most of the rivers and streams that start in the Chiltern Hills eventually flow into these 3 rivers, so it feels like the best boundary. One could argue that the area could also include everything south of the Lea before it reaches the Thames at Limehouse Basin, but that would include most of North London too.

So, the Greater Chilterns area, a beautiful and adventure-filled region, contains 16 parkrun events so far. It also includes my home event, Black Park and 2 of my hilliest favourites, Church Mead and Wendover Woods. Here’s the links:

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Actual course outlines for the parkrun events in the greater Chilterns area.

parkrun events within the Chilterns Hills AONB

• Church Mead

• Dunstable Downs

• Henley-on-Thames

• Tring (now permanently cancelled)

• Wendover Woods

parkrun events within the greater Chilterns AREA

• Black Park

• Cassiobury

• Ellenbrook Fields (now permanently cancelled)

• Gadebridge

• Higginson, Marlow

• Houghton Hall

• Jersey Farm

• Leavesden Country

• Luton Wardown

• Rickmansworth

• St Albans

• Upton Court

• Wycombe Rye

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More parkrun posts

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.

Featured and popular parkrun posts:

• LonDone: Completing all parkruns in Greater London

• Completing all parkruns in South-East England

• parkrun Compass Club

• parkrun Alphabet Challenge

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