{"id":27234,"date":"2021-05-23T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27234"},"modified":"2021-05-23T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:38:00","slug":"weak-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27234","title":{"rendered":"Weak Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThere have been traffic signals on Abingdon Bridge for a couple of weeks as one of the arches needs repairing.
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\nLooking down stream there are rounded arches.
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\nOn the other side are some older looking arches.<\/p>\n

From Elizabeth Drury & Judith Thomas’s book More of Abingdon Past & Present<\/em>, I see the bridge was built in 1416, first widened in 1820, and a major reconstruction took place in 1929 when the navigation arch was made wider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been traffic signals on Abingdon Bridge for a couple of weeks as one of the arches needs repairing. Looking down stream there are rounded arches. On the other side are some older looking arches. From Elizabeth Drury & Judith Thomas’s book More of Abingdon Past & Present, I see the bridge was built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234","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=27234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}