{"id":28478,"date":"2022-01-18T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28478"},"modified":"2022-01-18T22:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:49:25","slug":"first-house-at-abbey-fields-and-road-name-at-kings-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28478","title":{"rendered":"First house at Abbey Fields and road name at Kings Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011810.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was an article in the Abingdon Herald\u00a0 saying &#8216;Abingdon school boy has chosen the name of a new development&#8217; Abbey Fields. It is an excellent name. There has been excitement around the Dunmore Road area because the first houses have appeared at Abbey Fields.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011801.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe housebuilder is Barratt, well known to some of us for their 1970s helicopter adverts.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barratt Homes iconic 1970s helicopter TV advert\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mdkSUl-ci3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011803.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMeanwhile at Kings Gate the first houses have been occupied.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011805.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe road into the estate has been called Morgan Vale after former Mayor and Freeman of Abingdon, Janet Morgan. The Oxford Mail had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/15589062.obituary-former-mayor-abingdon-janet-morgan\/\">an obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the Abingdon Herald\u00a0 saying &#8216;Abingdon school boy has chosen the name of a new development&#8217; Abbey Fields. It is an excellent name. There has been excitement around the Dunmore Road area because the first houses have appeared at Abbey Fields. The housebuilder is Barratt, well known to some of us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478","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=28478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}