{"id":21925,"date":"2019-01-16T23:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21925"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T22:34:02","slug":"abbey-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21925","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19011616.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Close\" \/><br \/>\nAt one time Abbey Close (called Abbey in earlier town maps) was a short road from the Market Place through the Abbey Gateway towards the Abbey Meadow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19011603.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Close\" \/><br \/>\nOn one side it is still dominated by the long wall of the Abbey Grounds, and on the other side are houses.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19011608.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Close\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the railway was removed, and the church hall behind St Nicolas was demolished, Abbey Close was extended to the Vineyard in 1989. <em>Abingdon Past and Present<\/em> and <em>More of Abingdon Past and Present<\/em> by Judy Thomas &amp; Elizabeth Drury have pictures before and after.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19011614.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Close\" \/><br \/>\nThe millennium needle was added at the far end of Abbey Close in 2007.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19011618.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Close\" \/><br \/>\nComparing Abbey Close in 1950<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19011619.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Close\" \/><br \/>\nwith 1990 you can see how it has grown and meanders round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one time Abbey Close (called Abbey in earlier town maps) was a short road from the Market Place through the Abbey Gateway towards the Abbey Meadow. On one side it is still dominated by the long wall of the Abbey Grounds, and on the other side are houses. After the railway was removed, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abingdon-roads-a-to-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21925","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=21925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}