Development continues on the other new estate, Abbey Fields. It is separated from Kings Gate by the Tilsley Park sports facility with an athletics track and all-weather sports pitches.

The view from Tilsley Park makes Abbey Fields look picturesque with the new drainage lake in the foreground. There has been a lot of rain recently, and this could be less of a lake during the summer.

Abbey Fields borders the A34, and between houses and the road is a mound of earth topped by a fence to form a sound barrier.

Where the mound ends, the fence is about twenty feet tall.

People on the new Kings Gate estate have a wide dual-use (cycle and pedestrian) path that leads to the new store.

That also gives a good route for pedestrians and cyclists from some of the older houses if they cross from around Farm Road to the new Vernon Place. So far the new roads have a Mayor of Abingdon theme, which only holds if Vernon Place is named after Dr Vernon Butt (Mayor 1996-97).

The other new road, Walker Grove, could be after Pamela Walker (Mayor 1979-1980).

The estate also has a half-hourly bus service to Oxford or Abingdon town centre (and Wantage) with the X1.