{"id":13137,"date":"2015-01-01T17:55:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13137"},"modified":"2015-01-01T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:55:41","slug":"happy-new-year-boundary-walk-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13137","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year &#8211; Boundary Walk &#8211; 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Googling &#8216;abingdon boundary walk&#8217; I read it started at 11:30am, but failed to notice the date was 1 Jan 2014.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15010101.jpg\" alt=\"New Year Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe walk really set out at 11:00am, as advertised on the posters round town, and I found them by walking the reverse direction along the Ock Valley Walk.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15010102.jpg\" alt=\"New Year Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nWe then crossed the ancient Ock Bridge, peeped in at the MG Gardens, and then crossed the road at the Marcham Road lights.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15010108.jpg\" alt=\"New Year Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Crier, John Crowley, greeted people at various halts along the way on behalf of the Mayor and Town Council, wishing people a Happy New Year, as he woke some from their slumbers.<\/p>\n<p>He did say he hoped that those indoors would grow a skin like a rhinocerous in 2015 and be able to join the Boundary Walk next year.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced to those &#8216;<em>waking with the hideous realisation of the new year&#8217;s resolutions so sincerely made last night<\/em>&#8216; that he hoped &#8216;<em>the resolutions will last longer than the hangover.<\/em>&#8216;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15010105.jpg\" alt=\"New Year Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nHe introduced the &#8216;<em>infinitely informative and lavishly loquacious<\/em>&#8216; Patrick Bird who led the walk, and described the 1556 Abingdon boundaries.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15010109.jpg\" alt=\"New Year Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nAt Abingdon Lock, where the two hour walk finished, Patrick showed us a boundary stone, marked with &#8216;A&#8217; for Abingdob, and handed round pictures of other Abingdon and Parish Boundary stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Googling &#8216;abingdon boundary walk&#8217; I read it started at 11:30am, but failed to notice the date was 1 Jan 2014. The walk really set out at 11:00am, as advertised on the posters round town, and I found them by walking the reverse direction along the Ock Valley Walk. We then crossed the ancient Ock Bridge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}