{"id":30632,"date":"2023-04-22T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30632"},"modified":"2023-04-22T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T19:37:15","slug":"first-abingdon-walking-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30632","title":{"rendered":"First Abingdon Walking Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023042209.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe first Abingdon Walking Festival was based on the Market Place today. It was coordinated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdoneventspartnership.co.uk\/\">Abingdon Events Partnership<\/a>, which invited different groups to participate.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023042212.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe five longest walks, ranging from 4 &#8211; 11 miles, were led by the Ramblers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023042208.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTwo gentler walls were led by Abingdon Community Walks, who were also giving away exercise Tea Towels.<\/p>\n<p>A talk on famous women walkers was in the museum basement, followed by a walk.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023042207.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was also a variety of other groups, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdoneagles.com\/\">Abingdon Eagles Basketball Club <\/a>, who organise walking basketball at the Vale Leisure Centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023042206.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbowt.org.uk\/\">Berkshire, Buckingham and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust<\/a> have a lot of Wildlife reserves where people can walk, including four close to Abingdon around Dry Sandford.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023042210.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Friends of Abingdon Civic Society have several self-guided walks, the latest being Abingdon Royal History. Two more are currently being designed. The walks can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/abingdoncivicsociety.org.uk\/activities\/abingdon-walks\/\">Civic Society website<\/a>. They will organise a further day of themed walks in May and more on Heritage Open Day in September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Abingdon Walking Festival was based on the Market Place today. It was coordinated by the Abingdon Events Partnership, which invited different groups to participate. The five longest walks, ranging from 4 &#8211; 11 miles, were led by the Ramblers. Two gentler walls were led by Abingdon Community Walks, who were also giving away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30632","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=30632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}