{"id":32580,"date":"2024-09-03T21:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32580"},"modified":"2024-09-03T21:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:14:19","slug":"mapping-abingdons-benches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32580","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Abingdon&#8217;s Benches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024090306.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRecognising the value of benches for walkers, and walking as part of a healthy lifestyle, Healthy Abingdon, have created an interactive map showing all the benches in Abingdon. The map is available on the Healthy Abingdon website under benches (<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyabingdon.org.uk\/benches.htm\">https:\/\/healthyabingdon.org.uk\/benches.htm<\/a>). With a few clicks, people can locate the nearest bench, allowing them to find a place to rest or plot a route.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024090301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe map also acts as a record of the distribution of benches across Abingdon, which is far from uniform. Parks, riverbanks, and the town centre are well-endowed with benches. The new Abbey Fields development (above) also has fifteen benches along its walkways as well as several picnic tables.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024090303.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAmongst the benches, a few stand out. Some benches are dedicated to people, such as the one for Audrey Hasnip outside the Guildhall unveiled in April 2021. Audrey was the Mayor of Abingdon from 1999-2000, and a long-standing geography teacher at John Mason School as well as doing various other voluntary roles such as singing in St Helen&#8217;s choir.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024090302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe longest seat (I&#8217;m not sure it is bench) is round a tree near the charter. It could hold around 48 people simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognising the value of benches for walkers, and walking as part of a healthy lifestyle, Healthy Abingdon, have created an interactive map showing all the benches in Abingdon. The map is available on the Healthy Abingdon website under benches (https:\/\/healthyabingdon.org.uk\/benches.htm). With a few clicks, people can locate the nearest bench, allowing them to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580","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=32580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}