{"id":31947,"date":"2024-02-28T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31947"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:45:36","slug":"which-pub-in-abingdon-has-gravestones-in-its-garden-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31947","title":{"rendered":"Which pub in Abingdon has gravestones in its garden and why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/20240222801.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn the first edition of the Trinity Triangle magazine, in September 1982, I found the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>ADULT PUZZLER<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Which pub in Abingdon has gravestones in its garden and why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ANSWER (October 1982)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Our oldest member at Trinity &#8211; Miss Evelyn Rant &#8211; answered the Adult Puzzler correctly. She said, &#8216;The White Horse at the corner of Spring Road was once a burial ground.&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/20240222803.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI did visit the White Horse and got pictures of some of the stones in the rock garden, but I was not sure any were from gravestones.<\/p>\n<p>The staff at the pub knew nothing about the graveyard. However, Jackie Smith, the town archivist, has access to a map that shows Ock Street with the Air Balloon pub, a yard, a building, and then a Quaker burial ground. That Quaker burial ground starts near Reeves fish and chip shop.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Preston&#8217;s book, <em>St Nicholas Abingdon and other papers<\/em> (p. 98), refers to &#8216;the dissenters&#8217; graveyard at the west end of Ock Street &#8211; known as the Quakers&#8217; burial ground.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first edition of the Trinity Triangle magazine, in September 1982, I found the following: ADULT PUZZLER Which pub in Abingdon has gravestones in its garden and why? ANSWER (October 1982) Our oldest member at Trinity &#8211; Miss Evelyn Rant &#8211; answered the Adult Puzzler correctly. She said, &#8216;The White Horse at the corner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947","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=31947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}