{"id":31219,"date":"2023-08-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31219"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:30:00","slug":"former-mayors-of-ock-street-honoured-with-street-names-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31219","title":{"rendered":"Former Mayors of Ock Street Honoured with Street Names in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbey Fields Estate in Abingdon is being built, with new road names. In the case of Argyle Drive and Hemmings Lane, the latest two road names to appear, Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council has honoured two former Mayors of Ock Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023083001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nArgyle Drive is named after Leslie Argyle, who served as Mayor of Ock Street from 1980 to 1996.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023083002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHemmings Lane is named after one of the many Hemmings who were Mayors of Ock Street, possibly Tom Hemmings, who served as Mayor from 1949 to 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The Town Council uses a process to select street names that are relevant to the local area. They then pass them on to the District Council to make the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>Minutes from a Town Council Planning meeting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Planning-Advisory-19.7.21-notes-of-meeting.pdf\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Planning-Advisory-19.7.21-notes-of-meeting.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayors of Ock Street: <a href=\"http:\/\/atmd.org.uk\/mayors-of-ock-street-photos\/\">http:\/\/atmd.org.uk\/mayors-of-ock-street-photos\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbey Fields Estate in Abingdon is being built, with new road names. In the case of Argyle Drive and Hemmings Lane, the latest two road names to appear, Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council has honoured two former Mayors of Ock Street. Argyle Drive is named after Leslie Argyle, who served as Mayor of Ock Street from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work","category-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219","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=31219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}