Places
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Photos
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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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The Restaurant Workers
When my mother was a cook at Abingdon School and St.Helens School, she would work in the restaurant kitchen during the school holidays! And my Sister Doreen had her wedding reception in the restaurant back in ...Read more
A memory of Abingdon-on-Thames in 1955 by
Cheers Steanes Langfords Simons And More
My mother's ancestors all seemed to live in Abingdon and the surrounding villages of Launton, Kiddlington, Bicester, Charlbury etc. and I am collecting photographic records of these families and ...Read more
A memory of Abingdon-on-Thames in 1860 by
4 The Gap And 7 Parkside
NO 4 THE GAP My memory of Marcham started in 1946-7. My grandmother, Lydia Lawrence, used to live at no 4 The Gap. She was born in Long Wittemham, then she ...Read more
A memory of Marcham in 1946 by
Great Memories.1950s.
Hi. I was born in Urmston, the usual place, the cottage hospital, in 1944. I lived in Davyhulme until about 1963. I lived in Pangbourne Avenue which is off Abingdon Road. In the Davyhulme, Lostock Road pic it shows my ...Read more
A memory of Davyhulme by
Post Office Memories
I was 6 mths old when my parents moved into Magna Close, my maiden name being Stenson. 1955 I was born. Well, I have many warming memories of my childhood in Great Abington, some of which relate to the post office. Harry ...Read more
A memory of Great Abington in 1960 by
My School And Shop,Where I Spent My Pocket Money
my names norbert, I lived at the abbey in the early 1960 s. so Ionly had a 5 minuets walk to the school. my teacher was mr. vale. if i remember right the headmaster was a mr curd. i used ...Read more
A memory of Sutton Courtenay by
Captions
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Hidden by the trees to its left is Culham Manor, a fascinating house; its core is a 15th-century grange of Abingdon Abbey.
The village has two halves, one by the church and the other the north-south High Street, separated from each other by the grounds of The Abbey, another former grange to Abingdon Abbey with a fine aisled
The 14th-century abbey was built on land that once belonged to Abingdon Abbey, and was used as a summer retreat by the monks there.
He was the guest of the house's owner, Thomas Medlycott, the Recorder of Abingdon.
To the right, the stone wall is the south boundary of the Grammar School (now Abingdon School) grounds, with Albert Park in the middle distance.
Abingdon's stone bridge was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross, a guild of town merchants and prominent citizens founded before 1416 and incorporated by royal charter in 1441.
In 1894 it became a temperance hotel, but Abingdon was not ready for this, and it soon closed, and was demolished in 1900.
New buildings with Dutch gables were added, and it became Abingdon Carpet Factory soon after 1900.
North-east of the village and north of the A415 Abingdon Road is a large complex of austere Gothic- style buildings.
Until the mid 19th century, Abingdon grew little beyond its Tudor limits, but in the 1860s an estate of villas around a public park was set out to the north of Ock Street.
The fortress- like building at the far left is the former Abingdon Gaol, which was built between 1805 and 1811 to designs by Daniel Harris, an Oxford architect.
Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.
It is rich in monuments, including one to Anne Babington (1648), attributed to Edward Marshall (1598- 1675), whose monuments are of the first importance.
The lane by the church climbs past the 1847 village school, also by Scott, to the main road from Abingdon.
It is rich in monuments, including one to Anne Babington (1648), attributed to Edward Marshall (1598- 1675), whose monuments are of the first importance.
A lane leads left to the church and manor house, and to the right is Burycroft, which leads to the medieval bridge and then Abingdon.
It became the St George and Dragon in 1596, the Lord Abingdon Arms in 1754, and the Lopes Arms after a terrible fire in 1809.
