{"id":24933,"date":"2009-02-19T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/02\/19\/walk-near-the-water-treatment-works\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:24:00","slug":"walk-near-the-water-treatment-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24933","title":{"rendered":"Walk near the Water Treatment Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09021801.jpg\" \/><br \/>These houses at the Abingdon Marina can be seen on the far side of a former gravel pit, as night fell. There was a little drizzle of rain. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09021807.jpg\" \/><br \/>Close by, these settlement ponds were only added recently to the Water Treatment Works.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09021808.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Abingdon drainage system and sewage works south of Abingdon were originally planned and laid out in the 1870s. In Victorian Abingdon the sewage works would have been some way out of town, but Abingdon has grown.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09021809.jpg\" \/><br \/>On the other side of the treatment works are the Drayton Road Allotments &#8211; just beyond that barbed wired gate. 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