Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago
We didn't have a huge amount of time to parkrun so my friend Vicky and I headed over to Alderley Park parkrun. They don't have a café so we knew our capacity to parkfaff was limited. As someone with a Masters in Medicinal Chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Biology then I was super excited to run a parkrun on this site with such an exciting history in bio and life sciences.
Alderley Park was a global lead centre for cancer research when owned by AstraZeneca and many important drugs that are used worldwide today came from this site. It would be possible to turn up and parkrun here without acknowledging the important scientific history of the site. Apart from the start/finish area then the parkrun itself is largely in stunning woodland or along the dam of Radnor Mere. However for me, knowing a bit about the site made the parkrun experience much more fulfilling. It really felt like a unique parkrun.
At the moment the toilets here may well win the award for the poshest parkrun toilets, however work is due to begin which means that these soon won't be available so if posh parkrun toilets are your thing then you'll have to visit soon!
Huge thanks to the team here for making us feel so welcome. After I finished running I chatted to the scanning team for ages and they were all so lovely that I could really tell what a wonderful community this parkrun has. Definitely worth a visit!
Happy running, and happy adventuring,
Nicola :)
I film with a DJI Osmo Pocket 2: amzn.to/4eFte13
parkrun.org.uk/alderleypark
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderley_Park
We didn't have a huge amount of time to parkrun so my friend Vicky and I headed over to Alderley Park parkrun. They don't have a café so we knew our capacity to parkfaff was limited. As someone with a Masters in Medicinal Chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Biology then I was super excited to run a parkrun on this site with such an exciting history in bio and life sciences.
Alderley Park was a global lead centre for cancer research when owned by AstraZeneca and many important drugs that are used worldwide today came from this site. It would be possible to turn up and parkrun here without acknowledging the important scientific history of the site. Apart from the start/finish area then the parkrun itself is largely in stunning woodland or along the dam of Radnor Mere. However for me, knowing a bit about the site made the parkrun experience much more fulfilling. It really felt like a unique parkrun.
At the moment the toilets here may well win the award for the poshest parkrun toilets, however work is due to begin which means that these soon won't be available so if posh parkrun toilets are your thing then you'll have to visit soon!
Huge thanks to the team here for making us feel so welcome. After I finished running I chatted to the scanning team for ages and they were all so lovely that I could really tell what a wonderful community this parkrun has. Definitely worth a visit!
Happy running, and happy adventuring,
Nicola :)
I film with a DJI Osmo Pocket 2: amzn.to/4eFte13
parkrun.org.uk/alderleypark
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderley_Park
