{"id":33823,"date":"2025-06-04T21:53:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:53:46","slug":"progress-at-radley-reach-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33823","title":{"rendered":"Progress at Radley Reach, Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060408.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSince my last visit in November, progress has been made at the Radley Reach development off the Twelve Acre Drive. Dozens of new homes are now occupied.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060409.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPhase 2 is well underway, with more houses rising steadily behind the completed areas.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSeveral roads have now been given road signs. Among them are Russell Avenue and Spooner Court. Peter Spooner was the Mayor of Abingdon from 1987 to 1988. Could Russell Avenue be a tribute to Tony Russell, once the bagman of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nElsewhere, the road names follow an Abingdon Abbey theme with names such as Monk Crescent, Prior Road, Monastery Gardens, Cantor Row, and Benedictine Row.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060407.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Benedictine Row sign also points to the Sports Pavilion.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060406.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBehind the housing, the development borders open farmland, with wheat growing close to the perimeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last visit in November, progress has been made at the Radley Reach development off the Twelve Acre Drive. Dozens of new homes are now occupied. Phase 2 is well underway, with more houses rising steadily behind the completed areas. Several roads have now been given road signs. Among them are Russell Avenue and [&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-33823","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\/33823","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=33823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}