Completing all Oxfordshire parkruns

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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

  • I completed this event on: March 16th 2019 with a finish time of: 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

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: May 7th 2011

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 

Banbury

  • I completed this event on: July 6th 2019 with a finish time of: 26:08

  • Other routes touched (walk): N/A, although the Western edge goes very to close, and parallel with, the Oxford Canal Walk

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: September 27th 2014

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 
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Bicester

  • I completed this event on: January 27th 2018 with a finish time of: 25:15

  • Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 51

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: April 16th 2016

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 
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Chipping Norton School

  • I completed this event on: December 14th 2019 with a finish time of: 28:13

  • Other routes touched (walk): Shakespeare’s Way

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: December 14th 2019

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 

Didcot

  • I completed this event on: February 9th 2019 with a finish time of: 24:48

  • Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 5

  • Historic County: Berkshire

  • Inaugural: February 21st 2015

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 

Grove Fields

  • I completed this event on: September 11th 2021 with a finish time of: 24:53

  • Other routes touched (walk): Wilts and Berks Canal Towpath

  • Historic County: Berkshire

  • Inaugural: August 21st 2021

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 
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Harcourt Hill

  • I completed this event on: February 16th 2019 with a finish time of: 24:55

  • Other routes touched (walk): Ramblers’ Jubilee Circular Walk

  • Historic County: Berkshire

  • Inaugural: October 18th 2014

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 
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Henley-on-Thames

 

Horspath

  • I completed this event on: September 18th 2021 with a finish time of: 24:44

  • Other routes touched (cycle): None, however NCN 57 runs past the entrance and parallel to the southern edge of the course.

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: August 14st 2021

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 
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Oxford

  • I first completed this event on: Christmas Day 2017 with a finish time of: 26:17

  • Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 51

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: November 5th 2011

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 

University Parks

  • I first completed this event on: March 5th 2022 with a finish time of: 25:18

  • Other routes touched: None, although NCN 51 runs parallel to the western edge of the route.

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: February 5th 2022

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

 

Witney

  • I completed this event on: June 29th 2019 with a finish time of: 25:56

  • Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 57

  • Historic County: Oxfordshire

  • Inaugural: March 10th 2018

  • Links: Event Home Page, Course Page

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


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