{"id":34817,"date":"2026-01-04T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34817"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:04:28","slug":"bridge-repairs-along-the-river-ock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34817","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Repairs Along the River Ock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDuring the Boundary Walk on New Year\u2019s Day we followed the River Ock and saw outdoor staff from the town council mending the bridge halfway between the town end and Drayton Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe vertical wooden slats of the old bridge, pictured here in March 2025, were in a poor state of repair. Since then, orange barriers had been clamped along the sides of the bridge as a temporary measure.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010403.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe replacement sides now use horizontal beams made from recycled plastic, designed to resemble wood. A similar material and construction was used when the sides of the town end bridge were replaced three or four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Boundary Walk on New Year\u2019s Day we followed the River Ock and saw outdoor staff from the town council mending the bridge halfway between the town end and Drayton Road. The vertical wooden slats of the old bridge, pictured here in March 2025, were in a poor state of repair. Since then, orange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817","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=34817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}