{"id":25232,"date":"2006-08-31T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/08\/31\/abingdon-and-wantage-explorer-map\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T00:01:00","slug":"abingdon-and-wantage-explorer-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25232","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon and Wantage Explorer Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/ridgeway1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/ridgeway1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This Ordnance Survey explorer map covers: Abingdon, Wantage &#038; Vale of White Horse (and also includes the Thames Path and The Ridgeway).<\/p>\n<p>The map is pictured, for effect, on the worn surface of The Ridgeway &#8211; a prehistoric high road above the Berkshire Downs.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/ridgeway2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/ridgeway2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The closest section of the Ridgeway to Abingdon is approached through East Hendred, and along a straight tree-lined road that ends at a little shadey car-park with a warning about not leaving valuables in your car.<\/p>\n<p>The rolling view of the ridgeway is seen walking east. Looking down you can see  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diamond.ac.uk\/Gallery\/default.htm\">Diamond Light Source<\/a>. (Acknowledgements to The Diamond Light Source for the picture.) Very soon it will be operational and experimentation can begin.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/diamond.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/diamond.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Abingdon itself is built on an area of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimmeridge_Clay\">Kimmeridge Clay<\/a> and the Berkshire Downs are largely chalk. The Diamond Light Source contains <span><\/p>\n<li>2,100 tons of steel  <\/li>\n<li>35,000 m<sup>3<\/sup> of concrete  <\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Ordnance Survey explorer map covers: Abingdon, Wantage &#038; Vale of White Horse (and also includes the Thames Path and The Ridgeway). The map is pictured, for effect, on the worn surface of The Ridgeway &#8211; a prehistoric high road above the Berkshire Downs.The closest section of the Ridgeway to Abingdon is approached through East [&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-25232","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\/25232","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=25232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}