Two Castles Run 2026 road closures confirmed for Warwick and Kenilworth

Road closures have been confirmed for the Two Castles Run on 14 June 2026, with restrictions affecting roads and junctions in Warwick and Kenilworth between 7.30am and 1pm. Warwick District Council has confirmed the arrangements for the 10km event, which starts at Warwick Castle and finishes at Kenilworth Castle. Residents and motorists are advised to take the closures into account when planning their journeys.

Two Castles Run date and details

The Two Castles Run attracts thousands of participants and links the two castle towns over a 10km route. For Kenilworth, the key event location is Kenilworth Castle, where the run finishes after setting off from Warwick Castle.

The confirmed details provide the date, the overall period when closures will affect local roads, and the start and finish locations. They do not provide a road-by-road schedule or an exact number of runners for this year's event.

The closure window is useful for journey planning, but it should not be read as the run's start and finish times. Those event timings are not stated in the supplied information. The confirmed hours relate to the road restrictions associated with the event.

Road closure times and affected areas

Closures will affect various local routes, including major junctions and roads in both Warwick and Kenilworth. The reported window runs from 7.30am until 1pm, so the practical effect extends across the morning and into the early afternoon.

The available information does not name the individual streets or junctions involved. It therefore does not establish whether a particular home, business or destination will be directly on a closed road. Nor does it set out which alternative routes motorists should use.

There is also an important distinction between an overall closure window and the timing of restrictions at a particular location. The summary confirms that closures will affect roads between the stated hours; it does not say that every affected road will be closed continuously for that entire period.

For anyone checking a journey, the main points are:

• Restrictions will affect roads in both towns, not just the finish in Kenilworth.
• Major junctions are among the locations affected.
• Exact timings for individual roads are not included in the supplied summary.

The absence of a named street from this report should not be taken as confirmation that it will remain open. A detailed closure schedule would be needed to establish the position for a particular route. Equally, the announcement should not be read as saying that all roads across either town will close.

Warwick Castle to Kenilworth Castle route

The run follows a 10km route from Warwick Castle to Kenilworth Castle. These are the confirmed start and finish points, but the supplied information does not describe the streets used between them.

That distinction matters when considering the road restrictions. The castle locations explain the event's overall direction, but they are not enough on their own to work out which junctions will be unavailable or whether a normal driving route will cross the running course.

The event's stated distance is the distance of the run. It should not be treated as a description of the total length of road closures, which is not given.

Thousands of people take part in the event, according to the source summary. No exact participant total is supplied for 2026, and there is no separate figure for spectators. The confirmed information therefore supports describing it as a large running event, without putting a precise number on attendance or predicting how busy any particular street will be.

What this means for Kenilworth

For Kenilworth residents, the practical issue is that local journeys may be affected while the town hosts the finish of the run. The closures are not confined to Warwick, where the event begins: Kenilworth roads and major junctions are also included in the announcement.

Anyone expecting to drive in the area on 14 June should take the morning and early-afternoon restrictions into account. This is relevant to journeys within Kenilworth as well as trips towards or from Warwick, although the effect on any individual journey will depend on the roads used.

The finish at Kenilworth Castle is confirmed, but the summary does not set out arrangements for access to nearby properties, parking or public transport. It would be unsafe to assume either that those arrangements are unchanged or that a particular service or facility will be unavailable.

The advice for residents and motorists is to be aware of the closures and plan accordingly. Without individual road names and timings, this report can identify the affected towns and the overall time window, but cannot confirm access to a specific address.

Planning journeys on 14 June

The most useful preparation is to consider whether a planned journey falls within the closure window and whether it uses roads in either affected town. Where timing or access is important, the missing road-level detail needs to be resolved rather than filled in by assumption.

Before settling on a route, the questions to check are:

• Is any part of the journey on an affected road or through an affected junction?
• What restriction times apply at that location?
• Is there a confirmed alternative route suitable for the journey?

No diversion routes or estimated delays are stated in the supplied information. It is therefore not possible to recommend a particular detour or say how much extra travel time will be needed. The confirmed basis for planning remains the event date, the two affected towns and the 7.30am to 1pm closure window.