{"id":25245,"date":"2006-09-22T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/09\/22\/kings-head-and-bell\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T00:47:00","slug":"kings-head-and-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25245","title":{"rendered":"Kings Head and Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/kingshead3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/kingshead3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Kings Head and Bell public house takes you back into a world of dark wood panelling. There is a courtyard with tables where you can sit outside in summer, and a snug with a blazing fire in winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/kingshead1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/kingshead1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It is an old Pub with records going back to the 1500s. The out buildings would have  had a hostlery and smithy for horses. As can be seen there is enough room to drive a coach and horses.<\/p>\n<p>There are stories about King Charles I having come here during the early years of the Civil War, before the Roundheads took over Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the sign remembers that very King.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/kingshead2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/kingshead2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The facade was altered at the beginning of the 19th Century to look as it does now.<\/p>\n<p>There is  a jazz club upstairs sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favourite Abingdon pubs although the music can be loud at times. Not that I mind loud music. I&#8217;m just no good at lip reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kings Head and Bell public house takes you back into a world of dark wood panelling. There is a courtyard with tables where you can sit outside in summer, and a snug with a blazing fire in winter. It is an old Pub with records going back to the 1500s. The out buildings would [&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-25245","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\/25245","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=25245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}