{"id":18752,"date":"2017-06-12T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18752"},"modified":"2017-06-12T22:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T21:13:25","slug":"new-estates-seen-from-the-dog-walking-field-off-the-drayton-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18752","title":{"rendered":"New Estates seen from the Dog Walking field off the Drayton Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061203.jpg\" alt=\"New Estates\" \/><br \/>\nThis evening, I walked round the dog walking field between Masefield Crescent and the Drayton Road. Looking down from the top of the field, the remaining cooling towers of Didcot &#8216;A&#8217; Power Station are visible through a clearing in the trees &#8211; made for the entrance of the new Morland Gardens estate.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061204.jpg\" alt=\"New Estates\" \/><br \/>\nOn the west side, the wind blows across a field of barley &#8211;  wave after wave.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061205.jpg\" alt=\"New Estates\" \/><br \/>\nThe south facing field has a crop of rape seed, and not far beyond, next to the village of Drayton, another new housing estate is being built.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061202.jpg\" alt=\"New Estates\" \/><br \/>\nThe new Morland Gardens estate is now the home for quite a few people, and houses are going up, out of sight, at the far end of this ex-horse-grazing field.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061201.jpg\" alt=\"New Estates\" \/><br \/>\nThe new estate is separated by a wall from Virginia Way and Lucca Drive so the older and new estates are kept separate. New residents cannot just cut through on foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I walked round the dog walking field between Masefield Crescent and the Drayton Road. Looking down from the top of the field, the remaining cooling towers of Didcot &#8216;A&#8217; Power Station are visible through a clearing in the trees &#8211; made for the entrance of the new Morland Gardens estate. On the west [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752","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=18752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}