Everything You Need to Know About the Swindon Half Marathon

Here's all the information you need on timings and road closures for the Swindon Half Marathon taking place this Sunday.

Route

Starting and finishing in the town centre, the new course is largely very flat, and brings runners through the various highlights of the town including the Magic Roundabout, the County Ground, the Oasis, the Railways, the McArther Glenn Outlet Village as well as Old Town before a downhill finish into the Town Centre, where we’ll be finishing under the big screen of Wharf Green.

With a split start-finish, this will mean that rather than closing off the area for local residents and making it impossible for them to drive anywhere whilst the race is on, there’ll still be roads open for people to be able to go about their daily business, which we wouldn’t be able to do with a loop format.

Runners will drop their bags off at the start, and bags will be ready for them at the finish, so there are no worries about the logistics of getting back to the County Ground to collect their things.

The town centre provides parking for several thousand cars, and the new car parks in Princess street or the rear of Debenhams provide a 0.4mile walk to the start, and just a 0.3mile walk from the finish. Car parking in the town centre is now free on Sundays.

Where to park:

• Brunel North multi-storey
• Fleming way car park
• Commercial Road car park
• Whalebridge car park
• Debenhams 
• Bristol Street car park
• The Parade

Road Closures

• Shrivenham Road crossing of the Magic Roundabout from the County Ground to Queens Drive. All lanes
• Queens Drive from the Magic Roundabout to Coate Water – Direction lane only
• Dorcan Way (B4006) from Coate Water to Greenbridge – Left Lane Closure only
• Greenbridge Roundabout closed from Dorcan Way into Direction of Highworth
• Stratton road towards Swindon Road Ramp – Closed
• Bridgend Road – Closed only in the direction of Greenbridge to Cirencester Way
• Cirencester Way towards Transfer Bridges – Closed on left lane only (Dual Carriageway)
• Transfer bridges – Closed
• Great Western Way between the transfer Bridges and Cockelberry Roundabout – Closed on one lane only (Dual Carriageway)
• Corporation Street Bridge – Closed
• B4289 Between Corporation Street and Polaris Way – Closed one lane only (Dual Carriageway)
• Polaris Way running besides North Star College – Closed
• North Star Avenue – Closed one lane with permissible passing
• Hawksworth Way from the entrance of the Oasis to Newcombe Drive – Closed one lane only (left lane only when looking in the direction from the Oasis)
• Newcombe Drive (Hawksworth Industrial Estate) – Closed one lane in the direction towards Great Western Way – Permissible passing at the top to access Skate park and units
• Great Western Way from Newcombe Drive to Bruce Street bridges – Closed one lane only (Dual Carriageway)
• Bruce Street bridges – Closed one lane only between great Western Way and Kemble Drive
• Kemble Drive – Closed one lane only in direction from Bruce Street Bridges towards Outlet Village
• Penzance Drive towards Outlet West Car Park – Closed in the direction of Outlet West Car Park towards Mannington
• A3102 (Wootten Bassett Road) – In the direction from Mannington Roundabout towards Town, Road Closed past turning into Penzance Drive – Diversion out past Outlet Village under railway bridge
• Redpost Drive & outer road running past Whichlestowe towards Pipers Way – Road Closed on left side only when coming from direction of the BMW dealership. Managed Crossings to exit Juno Way and Eyam Road. All traffic can only flow in the direction of Pipers way and Wootten Bassett Road
• Waitrose Roundabout and Mill Lane – Open
• Pipers way – Closed left lane only in direction from Croft Road to Pipers Roundabout (Marriott)
• B4289 from Pipers Roundabout toward Wood Street. Closed Left lane only with permissible crossings from Evelyn Street and Signal Way
• B4289 Roundabout next to Co Op – Closed
• Wood Street – Closed
• Victoria Road – Closed between Bath Road Roundabout and Union Row, after which Victoria Hill will only be closed on the left hand side when facing down the hill. Traffic can still go up Victoria Road to the point of Union Row (between Longs Bar and the Vic) Permissible passing will be made into the Car park for Regent Circus Cinema etc.
• Commercial Road. Closed
• Market Street past Tented Market to Wharf green – closed

All roads will close approx. 1 hour before the first runner starts.