{"id":23861,"date":"2020-01-06T00:47:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23861"},"modified":"2020-01-06T00:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T23:47:38","slug":"the-street-with-the-most-names-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23861","title":{"rendered":"The Street with the most names in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010420.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Street\" \/><br \/>\nQueen Street, in Abingdon, is pictured here from level 7 of the Charter Car Park. <\/p>\n<p>Queen Street is a back lane providing the delivery entrances to shops on Bury Street and Stert Street. Hedges the Butcher is the only shop now to have a customer entrance down Queen Street. There used to also be a fitness studio. There are also some offices.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010419.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Street\" \/><br \/>\nThe thoroughfare got the name Queen Street in Victorian times &#8211; being the side entrance to the Queens Hotel. It ends in a medieval-looking passageway to the Market Place, where the Queens Hotel once stood.<\/p>\n<p>According to John McGowan&#8217;s book <i>&#8216;The Origins of the Street Names of Abingdon&#8217;<\/i>&nbsp; it is not really a street but a lane. He says &#8216;<i>It is one of the ancient thoroughfares of Abingdon and has had more names than any other street in the town:<\/i> <i>Ottwelleslane&#8230; Bryanneslane&#8230; Schoelane&#8230; Crab Lane&#8230; Workhouse Lane&#8230; Otwell Lane&#8230; and Queen Street&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Street, in Abingdon, is pictured here from level 7 of the Charter Car Park. Queen Street is a back lane providing the delivery entrances to shops on Bury Street and Stert Street. Hedges the Butcher is the only shop now to have a customer entrance down Queen Street. There used to also be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861","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=23861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}