{"id":15437,"date":"2016-01-01T23:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2016-01-01T23:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:25:19","slug":"boundary-walk-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15437","title":{"rendered":"Boundary Walk &#8211; January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boundary Walk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSomebody counted over 81 participants in the beating the bounds walk round Abingdon this morning &#8211; more than last year. The walk begins on the Market Place. Then follows &#8211; as closely as possible &#8211; the 1556 Abingdon Borough boundary. In places old geographical features are no longer recognisable so there is some guesswork.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boundary Walk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010106.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA photographer from the Oxford Mail was there to cover the beginning of the walk.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boundary Walk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010108.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe walk then followed the Ock Valley to the Ock Bridge. A willow had split in two covering the path. There have been strong winds recently, and so there was a short diversion.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boundary Walk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010109.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nParticipants had to go out of the way on Marcham Road where the traffic lights have been moved.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boundary Walk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010110.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt every stop the town crier rang his bell, and Penny Clover, who was leading the walk, told us something about the history of the place where we stood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody counted over 81 participants in the beating the bounds walk round Abingdon this morning &#8211; more than last year. The walk begins on the Market Place. Then follows &#8211; as closely as possible &#8211; the 1556 Abingdon Borough boundary. In places old geographical features are no longer recognisable so there is some guesswork. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437","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=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}