{"id":21818,"date":"2018-12-29T00:32:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21818"},"modified":"2018-12-29T00:32:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:32:04","slug":"circular-walk-via-abingdon-weir-and-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21818","title":{"rendered":"Circular Walk via Abingdon Weir and Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122801.jpg\" alt=\"Circular Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThere were some lovely clear reflections from the River Thames upstream from Abingdon Bridge.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122802.jpg\" alt=\"Circular Walk\" \/><br \/>\nNearing Abingdon Weir the water got rougher. Lots of people were enjoying the walk, and riverside views.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122806.jpg\" alt=\"Circular Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe walkway over Abingdon Weir<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122803.jpg\" alt=\"Circular Walk\" \/><br \/>\nand Lock makes a circular walk possible &#8211; along one bank and back along the other.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122805.jpg\" alt=\"Circular Walk\" \/><br \/>\nNext to the weir a stone reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THIS LOCKE WAS BVILDED BY<br \/>\nS. GEORGE STONEHOVSE AND<br \/>\nRICHARD ADAMS ANN. 1649<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The stone is mounted in concrete. Since 1649. the weir has been reconstructed and repaired numerous times. I gather that the walkway across the weir was added during work in the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were some lovely clear reflections from the River Thames upstream from Abingdon Bridge. Nearing Abingdon Weir the water got rougher. Lots of people were enjoying the walk, and riverside views. The walkway over Abingdon Weir and Lock makes a circular walk possible &#8211; along one bank and back along the other. Next to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21818","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=21818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}