{"id":23647,"date":"2019-12-02T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23647"},"modified":"2019-12-02T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T23:00:08","slug":"book-launch-radley-manor-and-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23647","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch &#8211; Radley Manor and Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120105.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Manor and Village\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday was the launch of a new local history book:&nbsp;RADLEY MANOR AND VILLAGE: a thousand year story. <\/p>\n<p>Radley is very close to Abingdon. The land did once belong to Abingdon Abbey. After Henry VIII dissolved Abingdon Abbey, Radley Manor became separate. <\/p>\n<p>In more recent times, as Abingdon has expanded as a town, fields that were parts of the parish of Radley have become estates in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120104.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Manor and Village\" \/><br \/>\nThe location of the launch was The Mansion, Radley College.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120101.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Manor and Village\" \/><br \/>\nThe book is a collaboration between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radleyhistoryclub.org.uk\/\">Radley History Club<\/a> and Radley College.&nbsp;The book tells the history of Radley\u2019s manor and its relationship with the village from around the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>The College was started in 1847 on land owned by the Bowyer Family, who owned the Manor. The College came to own more and more of the land, and now covers 800 acres.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120102.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Manor and Village\" \/><br \/>\nAt the launch there was an interesting storyboard history of the estate.  Radley WI were serving refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>Outside in the college grounds there were many rugby players getting ready for an afternoon of training and sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the launch of a new local history book:&nbsp;RADLEY MANOR AND VILLAGE: a thousand year story. Radley is very close to Abingdon. The land did once belong to Abingdon Abbey. After Henry VIII dissolved Abingdon Abbey, Radley Manor became separate. In more recent times, as Abingdon has expanded as a town, fields that were [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647","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=23647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}