{"id":25299,"date":"2006-10-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/10\/07\/stert-stream\/"},"modified":"2006-10-07T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T23:00:00","slug":"stert-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25299","title":{"rendered":"Stert Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/stert01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/stert01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Stert Stream or River Stert has a relatively short journey into Abingdon. It first sees the light of day near Boars Hill a few miles away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061014064836\/http:\/\/www.spaceagency.co.uk\/villages\/v_detail.php?id=820\">According to legend<\/a>, the stream first appeared when a saint-like man in saxon times was dieing of thirst. He started to pray, and the stream appeared as the answer to his prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The miraculous stream may well be revered as it passes through the villages of Sunningwell and Bayworth, but when it gets to Abingdon it is treated with no real respect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/stert02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/stert02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>After going under Dunmore Road,  it is chanelled into a concrete ditch(1st picture), and lost behind and then under the houses of Farm Road (2nd picture) .<\/p>\n<p>It is kept underground until reappearing near BoxHill Walk. After a little more time above the surface, it is sent down underground again for the rest of the way to the Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stert Stream or River Stert has a relatively short journey into Abingdon. It first sees the light of day near Boars Hill a few miles away. According to legend, the stream first appeared when a saint-like man in saxon times was dieing of thirst. He started to pray, and the stream appeared as the [&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-25299","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\/25299","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=25299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}