{"id":19789,"date":"2017-12-22T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19789"},"modified":"2017-12-22T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:12:51","slug":"annies-tea-rooms-walk-part-2-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19789","title":{"rendered":"Annie&#8217;s Tea Rooms &#8211; Walk Part 2 &#8211; Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we visited the original Annie&#8217;s Tearooms at&nbsp; the Canal in Thrupp (near Kidlington) and enjoyed Sweet potatoe soup&nbsp; (featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/notabingdon.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/12\/thrupp-near-annies-tea-room.html\">Not Abingdon Blog<\/a>).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17122304.jpg\" alt=\"Annie's Tearoom\" \/><br \/>\nToday we started a walk at&nbsp;Annie&#8217;s at the Boathouse in Abingdon. We split the sudoku and&nbsp; crossword so we both had a puzzle to do, then enjoyed some warming Leek and potato soup. We noticed that other Thames walkers had also stopped off here for refreshments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17122201.jpg\" alt=\"Annie's Tearoom\" \/><br \/>\nWe left Annie&#8217;s behind and walked along the far bank of the River Thames. For anybody driving along the A34, Abingdon might just look like a place of business parks, and out of town shopping.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17122202.jpg\" alt=\"Annie's Tearoom\" \/><br \/>\nbut Abingdon is a river town with all its buildings on one bank of the River Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17122204.jpg\" alt=\"Annie's Tearoom\" \/><br \/>\nThe walk in the direction of Culham is muddy in places so boots are a good idea at this time of year. The walk passes close to the old Culham Bridge, built in the reign of Henry V, and no longer used for traffic. So you can head back to Abingdon from there along the causeway or&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17122303.jpg\" alt=\"Annie's Tearoom\" \/><br \/>\ntake the route via Sutton Courtney (next Thames crossing) and back to Abingdon &#8211; a seven mile walk. The spire of St Helen&#8217;s Church can be seen for miles around, and the bright lights of the Old Anchor are there to welcome visitors on winter evenings.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17122302.jpg\" alt=\"Annie's Tearoom\" \/><br \/>\nThe splendid Old County Hall was completed in 1682 by Christopher Kempster, one of Wren&#8217;s master masons during the building of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral. The County Hall houses the town&#8217;s museum, and is well lit up at this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we visited the original Annie&#8217;s Tearooms at&nbsp; the Canal in Thrupp (near Kidlington) and enjoyed Sweet potatoe soup&nbsp; (featured on the Not Abingdon Blog). Today we started a walk at&nbsp;Annie&#8217;s at the Boathouse in Abingdon. We split the sudoku and&nbsp; crossword so we both had a puzzle to do, then enjoyed some warming Leek [&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-19789","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\/19789","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=19789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}