Wokingham - Sport and Leisure

Sport and Leisure

• There are public parks at Barkham Road Recreation Ground, Langborough Recreation Ground, Cantley Park, Chestnut Park, Elizabeth Road Recreation Ground, Elms Field, Riverside Walk and Waverley Park.
• The council provide a number of leisure facilities such as the Carnival Pool, St. Crispin's Sports Centre and the Pinewood Leisure Centre. Pinewood is the base for over 20 clubs and associations. There is a King George V Playing Field behind St. Crispin's in memory of King George V.
• The local football team is Wokingham and Emmbrook F.C.
• The Wokingham Half Marathon is held in February each year and starts and finishes at Cantley Park.
• Wokingham Library is in Denmark Street.
• Wokingham Cricket Club (founded 1825) play at their ground on Wellington Road.
• Wokingham Music, Food & Drink Festival is held every year in August. Showcasing local musicians, local food producers and also wines, beers, and ciders from Berkshire and surrounding breweries.
• Wokingham Open Air Cinema. For it's 2nd year there were three films shown the weekend before the Wokingham Festival.
  • 2011 - Toy Story 3
  • 2012 - Friday - Grease, Saturday - Madegascar 2, Sunday - Cool Runnings

Speedway racing was staged at California in Reading. Before then the track, known then as Longmoor was used as a training track. After the war the track featured in the Southern Area League in the 1950s. The team were known as the Poppies. The site of the stadium is now part of a nature reserve but a few remnants of the track remain.