{"id":34898,"date":"2026-01-22T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34898"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:28:21","slug":"more-new-road-names-at-abbey-fields-and-the-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34898","title":{"rendered":"More New Road Names at Abbey Fields and The Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012204.jpg\" alt=\"More New Roads\" \/><br \/>\nIn The Meadows at Abbey Fields, the David Wilson Homes development, several of the roads are named after businesses with long associations with Abingdon. A new one to me is Holmes Mews.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012204a.jpg\" alt=\"More New Roads\" \/><br \/>\nPercy Holmes was Mayor of Abingdon in 1953 and belonged to a family long associated with the town through P. Holmes &#038; Son, bakers with shops in Ock Street and Bath Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012205.jpg\" alt=\"More New Roads\" \/><br \/>\nNearby in The Meadows is a new children\u2019s play area. When I visited last summer it was still behind fencing. It has now opened.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012203.jpg\" alt=\"More New Roads\" \/><br \/>\nOn the neighbouring Abbey Fields estate, a Barratt Homes development, are a couple of other road names that seem to be fairly new. One of these is Crane Avenue. Rhoda Crane, known as Sue, served as a town councillor from 1987 to 1995 and was Mayor of Abingdon in 1993\u201394. She took a particular interest in town twinning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012201.jpg\" alt=\"More New Roads\" \/><br \/>\nAnother is Pickering Close. Dorothea Pickering was an educator and spiritual pioneer in Abingdon. She bought a house in East St Helen Street and moved her preparatory school there from The Vineyard, where it continued until 1967. In the 1970s she re-imagined the house as a spiritual centre, naming it St Ethelwold\u2019s after the Abbot of Abingdon Abbey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Meadows at Abbey Fields, the David Wilson Homes development, several of the roads are named after businesses with long associations with Abingdon. A new one to me is Holmes Mews. Percy Holmes was Mayor of Abingdon in 1953 and belonged to a family long associated with the town through P. Holmes &#038; Son, [&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-34898","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\/34898","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=34898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}