{"id":6473,"date":"2012-05-01T23:10:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T22:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2012-05-01T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T22:10:57","slug":"rising-water-level-on-the-river-ock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6473","title":{"rendered":"Rising water level on the River Ock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050102.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Water\" \/><br \/>\nThe Ock Valley Walk is still walkable &#8211; with Wellington Boots. This picture shows where water from the upper Ock \u00a0flows across the path to the lower stream. A little further downstream there is a weir where water is supposed to cross.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050105.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Water\" \/><br \/>\nUnlike the River Thames with its vast flood plain, opposite Abingdon, the River Ock runs through quite a narrow channel. But at the point where the upper and lower streams meet things are probably safer now,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050110.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Water\" \/><br \/>\nThe picturesque bridge by St Helen&#8217;s Mill was pulled down because it was thought to impede the flow. St Helen&#8217;s Mill has also been tanked, and a simple wooden gate is put across to keep the Ock on track, and not sweeping round people&#8217;s homes..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050109.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Water\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the Iron Bridge the Ock helps swell the Thames. There are 7 boats moored at St Helen&#8217;s Wharf just upstream from the Iron Bridge. The mooring is more secure than the soft ground upstream from Abingdon Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ock Valley Walk is still walkable &#8211; with Wellington Boots. This picture shows where water from the upper Ock \u00a0flows across the path to the lower stream. A little further downstream there is a weir where water is supposed to cross. Unlike the River Thames with its vast flood plain, opposite Abingdon, the River [&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-6473","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\/6473","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=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}