{"id":25093,"date":"2006-05-07T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/05\/07\/sustrans-cycle-route-5\/"},"modified":"2006-05-07T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:02:00","slug":"sustrans-cycle-route-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25093","title":{"rendered":"Sustrans Cycle Route [5]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050702.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Hanson Way is a cycle route connecting Didcot, Abingdon, and Oxford, and is part of a larger national route. It is made up of stretches of specially built paths, made by Sustrans. It was financed by money generated by the landfill tax, as a millenium project.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050703.jpg\" \/><br \/>This sign guides the cycle path through the Abbey grounds. The path makes up part of the National Cycle Network route 5. There are 6 main routes in England, which follow a convention like road naming. Route 5 runs from Reading up through Birmingham to Chester and then along the North Wales coast to Holyhead.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050704.jpg\" \/><br \/>The path follows the mill stream, then a blue sign says &#8220;Cyclists Dismount&#8221; to cross over the bridge.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050705.jpg\" \/><br \/>There were more people out walking their dogs than cyclists, but here are a couple of not too serious cyclists on their way back into town.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh vegetation surrounds the path. Stinging nettles and cow parsley grow up behind a seat made from interlocking railway sleepers. <\/p>\n<p>The cycle path continues with the Barton fields nature reserve on one side, and the Science park the other, then parallel to Thrupp Lane and past Radley Lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hanson Way is a cycle route connecting Didcot, Abingdon, and Oxford, and is part of a larger national route. It is made up of stretches of specially built paths, made by Sustrans. It was financed by money generated by the landfill tax, as a millenium project.This sign guides the cycle path through the Abbey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25093","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=25093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}