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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%8C_%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B4%D8%B1" title="ابینقدن، آکسفوردشر – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ابینقدن، آکسفوردشر" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_(Oxfordshire)" title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B4%D1%8A%D0%BD" title="Абингдън – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Абингдън" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_(Oxfordshire)" title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%8C_%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B4%D8%B1" title="ابینگدن، آکسفوردشر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ابینگدن، آکسفوردشر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A0%EB%B9%99%EB%8D%98%EC%98%A8%ED%85%9C%EC%8A%A4" title="애빙던온템스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="애빙던온템스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon,_Oxfordshire" title="Abingdon, Oxfordshire – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Abingdon, Oxfordshire" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon" title="Abingdon – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Abingdon" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abindonia" title="Abindonia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Abindonia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebingdona_pie_Temzas" title="Ebingdona pie Temzas – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ebingdona pie Temzas" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdonas" title="Abingdonas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Abingdonas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_(Oxfordshire)" title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%86%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA" title="アビンドン＝オン＝テムズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アビンドン＝オン＝テムズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_(Oxfordshire)" title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_i_Oxfordshire" title="Abingdon i Oxfordshire – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Abingdon i Oxfordshire" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames" title="Abingdon-on-Thames – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Abingdon-on-Thames" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon" title="Abingdon – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Abingdon" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Абингдон (Англия) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Абингдон (Англия)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon,_Oxfordshire" title="Abingdon, Oxfordshire – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Abingdon, Oxfordshire" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon" title="Abingdon – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Abingdon" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_(Oxfordshire)" title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire) – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Abingdon (Oxfordshire)" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a 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.pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Abingdon-on-Thames is located in Oxfordshire"><img alt="Abingdon-on-Thames is located in Oxfordshire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg/240px-Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg/360px-Oxfordshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">9.09 km<sup>2</sup> (3.51 sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">37,931 (<a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">2021 census</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">Density</a></th><td class="infobox-data">4,173/km<sup>2</sup> (10,810/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=51.669646~-1.292858&lvl=10&sp=Point.51.669646_-1.292858_Abingdon-on-Thames&sty=s&style=s">SU4997</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></th><td class="infobox-data">51.1 mi (82.2 km)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">Civil parish</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Abingdon on Thames<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">District</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vale_of_White_Horse" title="Vale of White Horse">Vale of White Horse</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England">Shire county</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_East_England" title="South East England">South East</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Abingdon</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/OX_postcode_area" title="OX postcode area">OX14</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01235</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley_Police" title="Thames Valley Police">Thames Valley</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service">Oxfordshire</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_Central_Ambulance_Service" title="South Central Ambulance Service">South Central</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oxford_West_and_Abingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)">Oxford West and Abingdon</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/">Abingdon Town Council</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Oxfordshire" title="List of places in Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Abingdon-on-Thames&params=51_40_18_N_01_16_42_W_region:GB_type:city(37931)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°40′18″N</span> <span class="longitude">01°16′42″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.67167°N 1.27833°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.67167; -1.27833</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Abingdon-on-Thames</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ŋ/: 'ng' in 'sing'">ŋ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">AB</span>-ing-dən</i></a>), commonly known as <b>Abingdon</b>, is a historic <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> and <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Vale_of_the_White_Horse" class="mw-redirect" title="Vale of the White Horse">Vale of the White Horse</a> district of <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, England. The <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">historic</a> <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> of <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a>, the area was occupied from the early to middle <a href="/wiki/British_Iron_Age" title="British Iron Age">Iron Age</a> and the remains of a late Iron Age and <a href="/wiki/Roman_people" title="Roman people">Roman</a> <a href="/wiki/Oppidum" title="Oppidum">defensive enclosure</a> lies below the town centre. <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Abbey" title="Abingdon Abbey">Abingdon Abbey</a> was founded around 676, giving its name to the emerging town. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was an agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool, alongside weaving and the manufacture of clothing. Charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various monarchs, from <a href="/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" title="Edward I of England">Edward I</a> to <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a>. </p><p>The town survived the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">dissolution</a> of the abbey in 1538, and by the 18th and 19th centuries, with the building of <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Lock" title="Abingdon Lock">Abingdon Lock</a> in 1790 and the <a href="/wiki/Wilts_%26_Berks_Canal" title="Wilts & Berks Canal">Wilts & Berks Canal</a> in 1810, Abingdon was on important routes for goods transport. In 1856 the Abingdon Railway opened, linking the town with the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a>. The canal was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and re-open it. <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_railway_station" title="Abingdon railway station">Abingdon railway station</a> was closed to passengers in September 1963. The line remained open for goods until 1984, its role including serving the <a href="/wiki/MG_(car)" class="mw-redirect" title="MG (car)">MG</a> car factory, which operated from 1929 to 1980. </p><p>Abingdon's brewery, <a href="/wiki/Morland_Brewery" title="Morland Brewery">Morland</a>, makers of <a href="/wiki/Old_Speckled_Hen" title="Old Speckled Hen">Old Speckled Hen</a> ale, was taken over and closed in 1999; the site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing. The rock band <a href="/wiki/Radiohead" title="Radiohead">Radiohead</a> formed in 1985 when its members were studying at <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_School" title="Abingdon School">Abingdon School</a>, a day and boarding independent secondary school. The <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2011">2011 Census</a> recorded the parish's population as 33,130.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was 2,504 more than in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">2001 Census</a> total of 30,626, and represented just over 8% growth in the population.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abingdon_LongAlley_north.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Abingdon_LongAlley_north.jpg/220px-Abingdon_LongAlley_north.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Abingdon_LongAlley_north.jpg/330px-Abingdon_LongAlley_north.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Abingdon_LongAlley_north.jpg/440px-Abingdon_LongAlley_north.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="761" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Long_Alley_Almshouses" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Alley Almshouses">Long Alley Almshouses</a> next to <a href="/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_Abingdon" title="St Helen's Church, Abingdon">St Helen's parish church</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abingdon_Berks_St_Helens.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Abingdon_Berks_St_Helens.jpg/220px-Abingdon_Berks_St_Helens.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Abingdon_Berks_St_Helens.jpg/330px-Abingdon_Berks_St_Helens.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Abingdon_Berks_St_Helens.jpg/440px-Abingdon_Berks_St_Helens.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1989" data-file-height="1459" /></a><figcaption>St Helen's parish church from across the Thames</figcaption></figure> <p>A Neolithic stone <a href="/wiki/Hand_axe" title="Hand axe">hand axe</a> was found at Abingdon. <a href="/wiki/Petrology" title="Petrology">Petrological</a> analysis in 1940 identified the stone as <a href="/wiki/Epidote" title="Epidote">epidotised</a> <a href="/wiki/Tuff" title="Tuff">tuff</a> from <a href="/wiki/Rossett_Pike" title="Rossett Pike">Stake Pass</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Lake_District" title="Lake District">Lake District</a>, 250 mi (400 km) to the north. Stone axes from the same source have been found at <a href="/wiki/Sutton_Courtenay" title="Sutton Courtenay">Sutton Courtenay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alvescot" title="Alvescot">Alvescot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kencot,_Oxfordshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Kencot, Oxfordshire">Kencot</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHarden1940165_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarden1940165-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Minster_Lovell" title="Minster Lovell">Minster Lovell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZeuner1952240_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZeuner1952240-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abingdon has been occupied from the early to middle <a href="/wiki/British_Iron_Age" title="British Iron Age">Iron Age</a> and the remains of a late Iron Age defensive enclosure (or <a href="/wiki/Oppidum" title="Oppidum">oppidum</a>) lies below the town centre. The oppidum was in use throughout the <a href="/wiki/Roman_people" title="Roman people">Roman</a> occupation. A Neolithic <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_(causewayed_enclosure)" title="Abingdon (causewayed enclosure)">causewayed enclosure</a> was found in Abingdon in 1926, dating to the 36th or 37th century BC.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Abbey" title="Abingdon Abbey">Abingdon Abbey</a> was founded in <a href="/wiki/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England" title="History of Anglo-Saxon England">Saxon times</a>, possibly around 676,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but its early history is confused by numerous legends, invented to raise its status and explain the place name. The name seems to mean 'Hill of a man named Æbba, or a woman named Æbbe',<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> possibly the saint to whom <a href="/wiki/St_Ebbe%27s_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="St Ebbe's Church">St Ebbe's Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a> was dedicated (<a href="/wiki/%C3%86bbe_of_Coldingham" title="Æbbe of Coldingham">Æbbe of Coldingham</a> or a different <a href="/wiki/%C3%86bbe_of_Oxford" title="Æbbe of Oxford">Æbbe of Oxford</a>). However, Abingdon stands in a valley and not on a hill. It is thought that the name was first given to a place on <a href="/wiki/Boars_Hill" title="Boars Hill">Boars Hill</a> above <a href="/wiki/Chilswell" title="Chilswell">Chilswell</a>, and the name was transferred to its present site when the Abbey was moved.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGelling195754–62_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGelling195754–62-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1084, <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> celebrated Easter at the Abbey and it is possible that his son Henry I received some schooling at the abbey.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was a flourishing agricultural centre with an extensive trade in <a href="/wiki/Wool" title="Wool">wool</a> and a famous weaving and clothing manufacturing industry. The abbot seems to have held a market from very early times and charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various sovereigns, from <a href="/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" title="Edward I of England">Edward I</a> to <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a>. In 1337 there was a famous riot in protest at the Abbot's control of this market in which several of the monks were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> After the abbey's <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">dissolution</a> in 1538, the town sank into decay. </p><p>In 1556, upon receiving a representation of its pitiable condition, <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I</a> granted a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_charter" title="Municipal charter">charter</a> incorporating the town as a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_borough" title="Ancient borough">borough</a>, governed by a mayor, two <a href="/wiki/Bailiff" title="Bailiff">bailiffs</a>, twelve chief <a href="/wiki/Burgess_(title)" title="Burgess (title)">burgesses</a> and sixteen secondary burgesses, the mayor to be clerk of the market, coroner and a <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace" title="Justice of the peace">JP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The present <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_Hospital_of_Abingdon" title="Christ's Hospital of Abingdon">Christ's Hospital</a> originally belonged to the Guild of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_cross" title="Christian cross">Holy Cross</a>, on the dissolution of which <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VI of England">Edward VI</a> founded the <a href="/wiki/Almshouse" title="Almshouse">almshouses</a> instead, under its present name. </p><p>The borough elected one <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">member of parliament</a>; this right would continue until the <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_Seats_Act_1885" title="Redistribution of Seats Act 1885">Redistribution of Seats Act 1885</a>. The 1556 charter also catered for the appointment of a town clerk and other officers, and the borough boundaries were described in detail. Later charters, from <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="James I of England">James I</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a>, made no considerable change. James II changed the style of the corporation to that of a mayor, twelve <a href="/wiki/Alderman" title="Alderman">aldermen</a> and twelve <a href="/wiki/Burgess_(title)" title="Burgess (title)">burgesses</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:County_Hall_Abingdon_Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/County_Hall_Abingdon_Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg/220px-County_Hall_Abingdon_Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/County_Hall_Abingdon_Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg/330px-County_Hall_Abingdon_Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/County_Hall_Abingdon_Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg/440px-County_Hall_Abingdon_Geograph-3071725-by-Des-Blenkinsopp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>County Hall, completed in 1680</figcaption></figure> <p>Abingdon became the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> of <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a> sometime after receiving its charter in 1556.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Assize_courts" class="mw-redirect" title="Assize courts">Assize courts</a> were held in Abingdon from 1570, but in the 17th century it was vying with <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a> for county town status. The <a href="/wiki/County_hall" title="County hall">county hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Court_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Court house">court house</a> were built between 1678 and 1682, to assert this status. The building, now the <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_County_Hall_Museum" title="Abingdon County Hall Museum">Abingdon County Hall Museum</a>, was reputedly designed by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Kempster" title="Christopher Kempster">Christopher Kempster</a>, who worked with Sir <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Wren" title="Christopher Wren">Christopher Wren</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abingdon borough police was the police force responsible for policing the Borough until 1889.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was formed as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Corporations_Act_1835" title="Municipal Corporations Act 1835">Municipal Corporations Act 1835</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The force was amalgamated into the <a href="/wiki/Berkshire_Constabulary" title="Berkshire Constabulary">Berkshire Constabulary</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1888" title="Local Government Act 1888">Local Government Act 1888</a>, which required all boroughs with populations of less than 10,000 to amalgamate their police forces with their adjoining county constabulary.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Today, the area is policed by the successor to Berkshire Constabulary, <a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley_Police" title="Thames Valley Police">Thames Valley Police</a>. </p><p>In 1790 <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Lock" title="Abingdon Lock">Abingdon Lock</a> was built, replacing navigation via the <a href="/wiki/Swift_Ditch" title="Swift Ditch">Swift Ditch</a>. In 1810, the <a href="/wiki/Wilts_%26_Berks_Canal" title="Wilts & Berks Canal">Wilts & Berks Canal</a> opened, linking Abingdon with <a href="/wiki/Semington" title="Semington">Semington</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Kennet_and_Avon_Canal" title="Kennet and Avon Canal">Kennet and Avon Canal</a>. Abingdon became a key link between major industrial centres such as <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Black_Country" title="Black Country">Black Country</a>. In 1856 the Abingdon Railway opened, linking the town with the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a> at <a href="/wiki/Radley_railway_station" title="Radley railway station">Radley</a>. However, Abingdon's failure to engage fully with the railway revolution, accepting only a branch line,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> sidelined the town in favour of <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a> which became the County Town in 1869.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Wilts_%26_Berks_Canal" title="Wilts & Berks Canal">Wilts & Berks Canal</a> was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and re-open it. <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_railway_station" title="Abingdon railway station">Abingdon railway station</a> was closed to passengers in September 1963. The line remained open for goods until 1984, including serving the <a href="/wiki/MG_(car)" class="mw-redirect" title="MG (car)">MG</a> car factory, which opened in 1929 and closed in October 1980 as part of a <a href="/wiki/British_Leyland" title="British Leyland">British Leyland</a> rationalisation plan.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The nearest railway station is <a href="/wiki/Radley_railway_station" title="Radley railway station">Radley</a>, two miles (3.2 km) away. Much of the original Abingdon branch line is now a cyclepath, whilst the land on which the station stood has been extensively redeveloped, and is now the site of a large <a href="/wiki/Waitrose" title="Waitrose">Waitrose</a> store and surrounded by a large number of new flats and houses. </p><p>The corporation was reformed, under the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Corporations_Act_1835" title="Municipal Corporations Act 1835">Municipal Corporations Act 1835</a>, but was abolished under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, which enacted extensive local government reorganisation across England and Wales with effect from 1 April 1974. As a result of this reorganisation, Berkshire County Council's northern boundary was much reduced and Abingdon's governance was transferred to <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, with the town becoming the seat of the new <a href="/wiki/Vale_of_White_Horse" title="Vale of White Horse">Vale of White Horse</a> District Council, and Abingdon becoming a <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> with a town council. Since the 1980s, Abingdon has played host to a number of information communication companies, with many based in the town's respective business and science parks. As a consequence, and owing to Abingdon's proximity to academic and scientific institutions in <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, the town has seen an influx of young professionals taking residence in the town's many residential areas such as Peachcroft. </p><p>The town was sometimes historically called "Abingdon-on-Thames",<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the official name of the borough (as given in statutes from the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to the Local Government Act 1972 and all intervening Ordnance Survey maps) was simply "Abingdon".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Local councillors voted in November 2011 to change the official name of the town to "Abingdon-on-Thames",<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the change took effect on 23 February 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-Wilkinson_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilkinson-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leisure_and_media">Leisure and media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Leisure and media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sport and recreation facilities include the White Horse Leisure and <a href="/wiki/Tennis" title="Tennis">Tennis</a> Centre, <a href="/wiki/Tilsley_Park" title="Tilsley Park">Tilsley Park</a> and the Southern Town Park. Abingdon had four <a href="/wiki/Movie_theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Movie theatre">cinemas</a> but all have closed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMeyrick200729–35_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMeyrick200729–35-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last was the Regal, which closed in 1989. It stood derelict for 24 years until it was demolished in 2003 and replaced by housing development, Regal Close.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMeyrick200734_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMeyrick200734-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Unicorn theatre was built in an area called The Checkers Hall in the ruins of the Abbey buildings and shows plays and films on an irregular basis. In addition, a new cinema, called the Abbey Cinema has been built in one of the Town Council buildings and operates in conjunction with the Regal in <a href="/wiki/Evesham" title="Evesham">Evesham</a>. </p><p>The local newspapers are <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oxford_Times" title="The Oxford Times">The Oxford Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Mail" title="Oxford Mail">Oxford Mail</a></i> and <i>Abingdon Herald</i>. The <i><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire_Guardian" title="Oxfordshire Guardian">Oxfordshire Guardian</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Free_newspaper" title="Free newspaper">free newspaper</a>, was based in Abingdon for many years and was founded as the <i><a href="/wiki/South_Oxfordshire_Courier" title="South Oxfordshire Courier">South Oxfordshire Courier</a></i> until its closure in 2018. Local radio and television stations are shared with <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, although <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> retains a news gathering centre in nearby <a href="/wiki/Milton_Park" title="Milton Park">Milton Park</a> (formerly having a broadcasting studio in the town) for <a href="/wiki/ITV_Meridian" title="ITV Meridian">ITV Meridian</a>. Historically the ITV franchise was <a href="/wiki/ITV_Central" title="ITV Central">ITV Central</a>. Local analogue radio is provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Oxford" title="BBC Radio Oxford">BBC Radio Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_FM" title="Jack FM">Jack FM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack 3">Jack 3</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heart_South" title="Heart South">Heart South</a> (historically 'Fox FM' and later 'Heart Thames Valley'), while the town is also covered by the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_transmitting_station#Digital_Radio" title="Oxford transmitting station">Oxfordshire DAB multiplex</a>. There was a <a href="/wiki/Six_TV" title="Six TV">Six TV</a> local TV channel until 2009 and the town's further education college was the home to <a href="/wiki/That%27s_TV" title="That's TV">That's TV</a> studios for <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a> until it relocated to <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Science_Park" title="Oxford Science Park">Oxford Science Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Tesco" title="Tesco">Tesco</a> Extra store west of the town is the largest supermarket in Abingdon and has historically been one of the most profitable Tesco stores in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nearby is the Fairacres Retail Park, thought to be the first retail park in the UK and recently redeveloped, which includes <a href="/wiki/Argos_(retailer)" title="Argos (retailer)">Argos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Subway_(restaurant)" title="Subway (restaurant)">Subway</a>, <a href="/wiki/B_%26_M" class="mw-redirect" title="B & M">B & M</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dreams_(bed_retailer)" title="Dreams (bed retailer)">Dreams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pets_at_Home" title="Pets at Home">Pets at Home</a> stores. It originally had two long established Abingdon retailers—Vineys Home Furnishings (now part of the Lee Longlands chain but retains its name) and Mays Carpets (now part of the <a href="/wiki/Carpetright" title="Carpetright">Carpetright</a> chain and has re-branded accordingly). In the town centre, many independent stores, estate agents and charity shops make up the Bury Street shopping centre as major high street names have chosen to go to other towns. However, a recent renovation has attracted stores such as <a href="/wiki/New_Look_(company)" title="New Look (company)">New Look</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peacocks_(clothing)" title="Peacocks (clothing)">Peacocks</a> and <a href="/wiki/WHSmith" title="WHSmith">WHSmith</a> to open branches. </p><p>The town centre of Abingdon was renovated in 2012<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as part of the council's redevelopment plan, with the 1970s shopping precinct converted to look more modern. The roads around the area have been changed: notably the one-way system around the centre has been partially changed to two-way. While this has slightly reduced traffic within the historic town centre, congestion has greatly increased elsewhere. Local businesses have also complained that the increased traffic has driven shoppers away.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Redevelopment of the Old <a href="/wiki/Gaol" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaol">Gaol</a> site, most recently a <a href="/wiki/Leisure_centre" title="Leisure centre">leisure centre</a>, began in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first stage was demolishing the 1970s additions and swimming pool extension. The Gaol has been converted into luxury flats, shops and restaurants, with access to the riverside. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abingdon has two <a href="/wiki/Non-League_football" title="Non-League football">non-League football</a> teams: <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_United_F.C." title="Abingdon United F.C.">Abingdon United F.C.</a>, who compete in the <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Football_League" title="Hellenic Football League">Hellenic League</a> Division One and play at The Armadillo Energy Stadium, and <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Town_F.C." title="Abingdon Town F.C.">Abingdon Town F.C.</a>, who play at Culham Road. Abingdon <a href="/wiki/Golf" title="Golf">Golf</a> Club/North Berks <a href="/wiki/Golf_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Golf Club">Golf Club</a> (now defunct) was first mentioned in 1876. The club disappeared at the time of the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Saints" title="Oxford Saints">Oxford Saints</a> <a href="/wiki/American_Football" class="mw-redirect" title="American Football">American Football</a> Club play their games in Abingdon at <a href="/wiki/Tilsley_Park" title="Tilsley Park">Tilsley Park</a> and are one of the longest-running American Football clubs in the UK, founded in 1983. Abingdon is home to <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Rowing_Club" title="Abingdon Rowing Club">Abingdon Rowing Club</a>, with members from 13 to 80 years old. It has had many successes at local and national races, and also holds its own <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Rowing_Club#Abingdon_Head_of_the_River" title="Abingdon Rowing Club">Abingdon Head</a> race in April, one of the main events in the Abingdon Calendar. Its boathouse is on Wilsham Road. Abingdon Amblers changed its name to Abingdon <a href="/wiki/Sport_of_Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="Sport of Athletics">Athletics</a> Club. They train at Tilsley Park and take part in county cross-country leagues. </p><p>Abingdon RUFC was formed at the Queens Hotel on 27 February 1931. During the 1930s the club was based at the Queens Hotel and games were played on the Council owned recreation ground at Caldecott Road. Immediately after the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> the club moved to outside the <a href="/wiki/RAF" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF">RAF</a> camp (now <a href="/wiki/Dalton_Barracks" title="Dalton Barracks">Dalton Barracks</a>) which offered on-site changing facilities and later a pitch inside the camp. At the start of the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Crisis" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a> in 1956 play temporarily returned to the Caldecott Road site because of security risks. This period saw the formation of the ill-fated Abingdon <a href="/wiki/Sports_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports Club">Sports Club</a>; an amalgamation of the town's <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a> and <a href="/wiki/Field_hockey" title="Field hockey">hockey</a> clubs and the bid to establish a sporting centre at Hales Meadow. In a short time the ground was developed and a <a href="/wiki/Pavilion" title="Pavilion">pavilion</a> erected but the organisation was plagued with financial difficulties and very soon dissolved with hockey disbanding and Abingdon Rugby remaining at the site as tenants to the cricket club. In the mid-1980s a determined effort was made to acquire grounds and a clubhouse dedicated to rugby. In 2022 Abingdon Womens Rugby Club known as “The Albatrosses” was formed and they currently play in the Inner Warrior League.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The current base at the town's Southern Sports Park was opened by former Abingdon MP <a href="/wiki/John_Patten,_Baron_Patten" title="John Patten, Baron Patten">John Patten</a> in 1989. Abingdon has had members representing the county, progressing to first-class level and on to international status in the <a href="/wiki/Six_Nations_Championship" title="Six Nations Championship">Six Nations</a> Tournament. The Abingdon Sevens traditionally opens the Home Counties' playing season and has attracted sides from throughout the country and beyond. Initiated in 1956 as a one-off tournament to celebrate the town's 400th anniversary of receiving a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Charter">Royal Charter</a>, it proved so successful that the competition has been held on an annual basis ever since. Several years ago it was decided to introduce the youngsters of Abingdon to Club Rugby. The Youth Section has 200 playing members from the ages of 6 to 18. In 2013–14 Abingdon RFC's President, Paul Murphy MBE, was also the President of the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Football_Union" title="Rugby Football Union">RFU</a>. Since 2016, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Rugby_League" title="Oxford Rugby League">Oxford Rugby League</a> have played in Abingdon at <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_School" title="Abingdon School">Abingdon School</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Tilsley_Park" title="Tilsley Park">Tilsley Park</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Pavlova and Gloria <a href="/wiki/Leather_work" class="mw-redirect" title="Leather work">leather works</a> were major employers but both are now closed. <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Booth_and_Company" title="Alfred Booth and Company">Alfred Booth and Company</a> of <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a> traded with the Pavlova Leather Syndicate from 1860,<sup id="cite_ref-Booth_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Booth-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> bought a share in it in 1917–18<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohn1959116_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohn1959116-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and took it over in 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohn1959130_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohn1959130-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 1947 at the annual <a href="/wiki/British_Industries_Fair" title="British Industries Fair">British Industries Fair</a> in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, Pavlova advertised doe skins, <a href="/wiki/Chamois" title="Chamois">chamois</a>, lambskins and goatskins, much of it as <a href="/wiki/Suede" title="Suede">suede</a>, for uses including shoes, gloves and belts.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958 Pavlova's site covered 35 acres (14 ha), employed neary 200 people and included a staff sports field. At that time its factory still processed imported skins of sheep, lamb and goat, mainly to make suede.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohn1959186_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohn1959186-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Garner Group took over the Booth Group in 1979 and became Garner Booth. Pittards plc took over Garner Booth in 1987 and became Pittard Garner. It closed the Pavlova works in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-Booth_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Booth-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abingdon was originally home to the <a href="/wiki/Morland_Brewery" title="Morland Brewery">Morland Brewery</a>, whose most famous ale was <a href="/wiki/Old_Speckled_Hen" title="Old Speckled Hen">Old Speckled Hen</a>, named after an early <a href="/wiki/MG_Cars" class="mw-redirect" title="MG Cars">MG</a> car. <a href="/wiki/Greene_King_Brewery" class="mw-redirect" title="Greene King Brewery">Greene King Brewery</a> bought Morland for £182 million in 1999, closed the brewery and moved production to <a href="/wiki/Bury_St_Edmunds" title="Bury St Edmunds">Bury St Edmunds</a> in <a href="/wiki/Suffolk" title="Suffolk">Suffolk</a>. The site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing. The <a href="/wiki/Malting" title="Malting">Maltings</a> was demolished and is now a mixed residential area and council offices. In 2010, a <a href="/wiki/Craft_brewery" class="mw-redirect" title="Craft brewery">craft brewery</a>, Loose Cannon, reinstated brewing in the town at the Drayton Road Industrial Estate and sells its beers locally, including on draught at some local <a href="/wiki/Public_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Public house">pubs</a>. Abingdon is near several major scientific employers: the <a href="/wiki/UKAEA" class="mw-redirect" title="UKAEA">UKAEA</a> at <a href="/wiki/Culham" title="Culham">Culham</a> (including the <a href="/wiki/Joint_European_Torus" title="Joint European Torus">Joint European Torus</a> (JET) fusion research project), <a href="/wiki/Harwell_Laboratory" class="mw-redirect" title="Harwell Laboratory">Harwell Laboratory</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Science_and_Technology_Facilities_Council" title="Science and Technology Facilities Council">STFC</a> <a href="/wiki/Rutherford_Appleton_Laboratory" title="Rutherford Appleton Laboratory">Rutherford Appleton Laboratory</a> and the new <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Light_Source" title="Diamond Light Source">Diamond Light Source</a> <a href="/wiki/Synchrotron" title="Synchrotron">synchrotron</a>, which is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 40 years. Many inhabitants work in <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a> or commute by rail to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, from nearby <a href="/wiki/Didcot" title="Didcot">Didcot</a>. The <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">Army</a> now occupies <a href="/wiki/Dalton_Barracks" title="Dalton Barracks">Dalton Barracks</a>, which, prior to 1993, was the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> station <a href="/wiki/RAF_Abingdon" title="RAF Abingdon">RAF Abingdon</a>. </p><p>Abingdon has a business park which has offices for several local, national and international companies including, until recently, <a href="/wiki/Vodafone" title="Vodafone">Vodafone</a> (acquired as part of its takeover of <a href="/wiki/Mannesmann" title="Mannesmann">Mannesmann</a> in 2000) and <a href="/wiki/Northern_Rock" title="Northern Rock">Northern Rock</a> bank. The Science Park includes the global headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Sophos" title="Sophos">Sophos</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Antivirus_software" title="Antivirus software">anti-virus</a> company. <a href="/wiki/RM_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="RM Education">RM</a>, an educational computing supplier, commonly refer to themselves as being Abingdon-based, which is technically true—even though their HQ is actually in nearby <a href="/wiki/Milton_Park" title="Milton Park">Milton Park</a>, Milton, they have an Abingdon post code (as does the rest of Milton Park). Penlon Ltd, a medical equipment company, have their premises on the outskirts of Abingdon (their previous site, near the former railway station, has been redeveloped as residential housing). Another major employer is the British head office of the German appliance company <a href="/wiki/Miele" title="Miele">Miele</a>. </p><p>Industrially, Abingdon was best known for the <a href="/wiki/MG_Cars" class="mw-redirect" title="MG Cars">MG</a> car factory, which opened in 1929. 1,155,032 cars were made at the plant over the next 51 years until <a href="/wiki/British_Leyland" title="British Leyland">British Leyland</a> closed it on 24 October 1980. Subsequent cars sold under the MG brand have since been produced either at <a href="/wiki/Longbridge_plant" title="Longbridge plant">Longbridge</a> in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> or at <a href="/wiki/SAIC_Motor" title="SAIC Motor">SAIC's</a> factories in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>. The company was founded in 1924 and moved its business alongside the Pavlova Leather Factory in 1929. By the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, MG was established as one of the most popular brands of <a href="/wiki/Sports_car" title="Sports car">sports car</a> in <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Britain</a>. After the war, the MG factory continued to churn out increasing volumes of popular sports car which were available at competitive prices but the factory closed in October 1980 on the demise of the ageing but still popular <a href="/wiki/MG_MGB" title="MG MGB">MG MGB</a> range, and was demolished within months. The headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/MG_Car_Club" title="MG Car Club">MG Car Club</a>, founded in 1930, is at 11 & 12 Cemetery Road, next to the old factory offices. A <a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley_Police" title="Thames Valley Police">police</a> station was built in its place, which was later extended with the addition of more cells, as <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>'s police station could not be extended further. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography_and_transport">Geography and transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geography and transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abingdon-on-Thames_town_centre_directions_sign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Abingdon-on-Thames_town_centre_directions_sign.jpg/170px-Abingdon-on-Thames_town_centre_directions_sign.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Abingdon-on-Thames_town_centre_directions_sign.jpg/255px-Abingdon-on-Thames_town_centre_directions_sign.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Abingdon-on-Thames_town_centre_directions_sign.jpg/340px-Abingdon-on-Thames_town_centre_directions_sign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>A sign in Abingdon-on-Thames' town centre showing directions to nearby locations</figcaption></figure> <p>Abingdon is 9 miles (14 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, 15 mi (24 km) south-east of <a href="/wiki/Witney" title="Witney">Witney</a> and 22 mi (35 km) north of <a href="/wiki/Newbury,_Berkshire" title="Newbury, Berkshire">Newbury</a> in the flat valley of the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">Thames</a> on its west (right) bank, where the small <a href="/wiki/River_Ock" title="River Ock">river Ock</a> flows in from the <a href="/wiki/Vale_of_White_Horse" title="Vale of White Horse">Vale of White Horse</a>. It is on the <a href="/wiki/A415_road" title="A415 road">A415</a> between Witney and <a href="/wiki/Dorchester_on_Thames" title="Dorchester on Thames">Dorchester</a>, adjacent to the <a href="/wiki/A34_road" title="A34 road">A34</a> trunk road, linking it with the <a href="/wiki/M4_motorway" title="M4 motorway">M4</a> and <a href="/wiki/M40_motorway" title="M40 motorway">M40</a> motorways. The B4017 and A4183 also link the town, both being part of the old A34 and often heavily congested. Local bus services to Oxford and the surrounding areas are run by the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Bus_Company" title="Oxford Bus Company">Oxford Bus Company</a>, its sister company <a href="/wiki/Thames_Travel" title="Thames Travel">Thames Travel</a> and smaller independent companies. </p><p>Abingdon no longer has a rail service.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in recent years, urban expansion has brought <a href="/wiki/Radley_railway_station" title="Radley railway station">Radley railway station</a> close to the town's northeastern limits.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The small, primarily stopping-service, railway stations at <a href="/wiki/Culham_railway_station" title="Culham railway station">Culham</a> and Radley are both just over two miles (3.2 km) from the town centre. Abingdon's eastern ring-road and newest suburbs are connected by footpath and <a href="/wiki/Cycleway" class="mw-redirect" title="Cycleway">cycleway</a> from Radley. </p><p>Culham station was called "Abingdon Road" when it first opened in 1844, being the nearest station to the town at that time. It was renamed "Culham" when the Abingdon Railway branch line to <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_railway_station" title="Abingdon railway station">Abingdon railway station</a> was opened in 1856.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That branch line initially connected to the main line at <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Junction_railway_station" title="Abingdon Junction railway station">Abingdon Junction</a>, before being extended to Radley station when that opened in 1873. The branch line from Radley to Abingdon closed to passengers in 1963. The nearest major stations with taxi ranks are <a href="/wiki/Oxford_railway_station" title="Oxford railway station">Oxford</a> (6 miles/9.7 km) and <a href="/wiki/Didcot_Parkway_railway_station" title="Didcot Parkway railway station">Didcot Parkway</a> (8 miles/13 km). All are managed by <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)" title="Great Western Railway (train operating company)">Great Western Railway</a>. Frequent express buses operate between the local railway stations and Abingdon, run by <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Bus_Company" title="Oxford Bus Company">Oxford Bus Company</a> and its sister company <a href="/wiki/Thames_Travel" title="Thames Travel">Thames Travel</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abingdon_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6304527.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Abingdon_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6304527.jpg/220px-Abingdon_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6304527.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Abingdon_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6304527.jpg/330px-Abingdon_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6304527.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Abingdon_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6304527.jpg/440px-Abingdon_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6304527.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>The Guildhall: Meeting place of the town council</figcaption></figure> <p>There are three tiers of local government covering Abingdon, at <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">parish</a> (town), <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">district</a> and <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">county</a> level: Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council, <a href="/wiki/Vale_of_White_Horse_District_Council" title="Vale of White Horse District Council">Vale of White Horse District Council</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire_County_Council" title="Oxfordshire County Council">Oxfordshire County Council</a>. The town council meets at the Guildhall on Bridge Street and has its offices in the adjoining Roysse Court.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Parts of the Guildhall date back to the 15th century, having been originally part of the Abbey complex.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oxfordshire_Abingdon-on-Thames_Town_Council_2019_%26_2023.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Oxfordshire_Abingdon-on-Thames_Town_Council_2019_%26_2023.svg/220px-Oxfordshire_Abingdon-on-Thames_Town_Council_2019_%26_2023.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Oxfordshire_Abingdon-on-Thames_Town_Council_2019_%26_2023.svg/330px-Oxfordshire_Abingdon-on-Thames_Town_Council_2019_%26_2023.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Oxfordshire_Abingdon-on-Thames_Town_Council_2019_%26_2023.svg/440px-Oxfordshire_Abingdon-on-Thames_Town_Council_2019_%26_2023.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a><figcaption>Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council's current composition following the 2023 local elections.</figcaption></figure> <p>Control of the town council has passed between the Liberal Democrats and <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservatives</a> in recent years. Elections take place every four years. After the <a href="/wiki/2023_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2023 United Kingdom local elections">2023 local elections</a>, the political composition of the council was:<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Party</th> <th>Councillors </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a></td> <td align="center">18 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #02A95B;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a></td> <td align="center">1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Total</th> <th>19 </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>The incumbent Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Oxford_West_and_Abingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)">Oxford West and Abingdon</a> is <a href="/wiki/Layla_Moran" title="Layla Moran">Layla Moran</a> (Liberal Democrat). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_history">Administrative history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Administrative history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abingdon was first incorporated as a borough in 1556. The borough covered parts of the parishes of <a href="/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_Abingdon" title="St Helen's Church, Abingdon">St Helen</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_Nicolas_Church,_Abingdon" title="St Nicolas Church, Abingdon">St Nicolas</a>; both parishes also included rural areas beyond the borough boundary.<sup id="cite_ref-commissioners_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commissioners-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The borough was reformed to become a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a> in 1836 under the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Corporations_Act_1835" title="Municipal Corporations Act 1835">Municipal Corporations Act 1835</a>, which standardised how most boroughs operated across the country.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1894" title="Local Government Act 1894">Local Government Act 1894</a> directed that parishes were no longer allowed to straddle borough boundaries, and so a parish called Abingdon was created covering the same area as the borough, and the parts of the parishes of St Helen and St Nicolas outside the borough boundary were combined into a separate parish called <a href="/wiki/St._Helen_Without" title="St. Helen Without">St. Helen Without</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The municipal borough was abolished in 1974 under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, which also transferred the town from Berkshire to Oxfordshire. District-level functions passed to the Vale of White Horse District Council. A <a href="/wiki/Successor_parish" title="Successor parish">successor parish</a> covering the area of the former borough was created called Abingdon, with its council taking the name Abingdon Town Council.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The parish was formally renamed to Abingdon-on-Thames in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-Wilkinson_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilkinson-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Places_of_interest">Places of interest</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Places of interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abingdon_Abbey,_geograph.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Abingdon_Abbey%2C_geograph.jpg/220px-Abingdon_Abbey%2C_geograph.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Abingdon_Abbey%2C_geograph.jpg/330px-Abingdon_Abbey%2C_geograph.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Abingdon_Abbey%2C_geograph.jpg/440px-Abingdon_Abbey%2C_geograph.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The Long Gallery at Abingdon Abbey</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AbingdonBrBu02.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/AbingdonBrBu02.JPG/220px-AbingdonBrBu02.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/AbingdonBrBu02.JPG/330px-AbingdonBrBu02.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/AbingdonBrBu02.JPG/440px-AbingdonBrBu02.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1982" data-file-height="1433" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Bridge" title="Abingdon Bridge">Abingdon Bridge</a> spans the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a>. It was built in 1416 and much altered in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.</figcaption></figure> <p>Of the <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Abbey" title="Abingdon Abbey">Abingdon Abbey</a> there remains a <a href="/wiki/English_Gothic_architecture" title="English Gothic architecture">Perpendicular</a> gateway and ruins of the mainly <a href="/wiki/English_Gothic_architecture" title="English Gothic architecture">Early English</a> <a href="/wiki/Prior_(ecclesiastical)" title="Prior (ecclesiastical)">prior</a>'s house, the guest house and other fragments. Other remains from the former abbey include the Unicorn Theatre and the Long Gallery, which are still used for plays and functions including an annual craft fair. <a href="/wiki/St_Nicolas%27_Church,_Abingdon" class="mw-redirect" title="St Nicolas' Church, Abingdon">St. Nicolas' Church</a>, parts of which were built in 1180, is near the museum.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Bridge" title="Abingdon Bridge">Abingdon Bridge</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Thames" class="mw-redirect" title="Thames">Thames</a>, near <a href="/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_Abingdon" title="St Helen's Church, Abingdon">St Helen's Church</a>, was built in 1416 and was widened or altered in 1790,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJervoise19307_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJervoise19307-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1828,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJervoise19306_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJervoise19306-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1927 and 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoiberg201033-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJervoise19307_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJervoise19307-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeemingSalter1937134–140_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeemingSalter1937134–140-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abbey Gateway between the <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_County_Hall_Museum" title="Abingdon County Hall Museum">Abingdon County Hall Museum</a> and the Guildhall remains a point of local importance.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abingdon has the remains of a <a href="/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle" title="Motte-and-bailey castle">motte-and-bailey castle</a>, which can be found to the north of the town centre surrounded by trees within a housing estate. Originally built of wood or stone, it was a fortification on a raised earthwork called a motte surrounded by a protective ditch. There is a <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> FW3/28A <a href="/wiki/Pillbox_(military)" title="Pillbox (military)">pillbox</a> by the <a href="/wiki/River_Ock" title="River Ock">River Ock</a> near <a href="/wiki/Marcham" title="Marcham">Marcham</a> Road.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Gaol" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaol">gaol</a>, built by prisoners of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> in 1811, is on the south edge of town next to the <a href="/wiki/Thames" class="mw-redirect" title="Thames">Thames</a>. In the 1970s the gaol was converted into a <a href="/wiki/Leisure_centre" title="Leisure centre">leisure centre</a>. In 2011 the site was developed into residential and commercial premises. According to local legend, prior to its conversion in the 1970s, the gaol was haunted by the ghost of an eight-year-old boy who, after being convicted for arson in the mid-19th century, became the youngest person in the UK to be executed by <a href="/wiki/Hanging" title="Hanging">hanging</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Roysse Room was the site of <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_School" title="Abingdon School">Abingdon School</a> (then 'Roysse's School') from 1563 until it moved to its current site after an <a href="/wiki/Indenture" title="Indenture">indenture</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_Roysse" title="John Roysse">John Roysse</a>, who had been born and educated in Abingdon before he moved to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. The room is now part of the civic offices. <a href="/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_Abingdon" title="St Helen's Church, Abingdon">St. Helen's Church</a> dates from around 1100 and is the second-widest church in England, having five <a href="/wiki/Aisle" title="Aisle">aisles</a> and being 10 feet (3 m) wider than it is long. The <a href="/wiki/Bell_tower" title="Bell tower">tower</a> of St Helen's Church has a modern <a href="/wiki/Change_ringing" title="Change ringing">ring</a> of ten bells, cast by the <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel_Bell_Foundry" title="Whitechapel Bell Foundry">Whitechapel Bell Foundry</a> in 2005 and hung in a new frame with new fittings by <a href="/wiki/Appleton,_Oxfordshire#White's_of_Appleton" title="Appleton, Oxfordshire">White's of Appleton</a> in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abingdon's <a href="/wiki/County_hall" title="County hall">county hall</a> by the main <a href="/wiki/Market_square" title="Market square">market square</a>, built in 1677–1680 reputedly by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Kempster" title="Christopher Kempster">Christopher Kempster</a>, stands on columns, leaving the ground floor open for a market and other functions. It was once hailed by <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_Pevsner" title="Nikolaus Pevsner">Nikolaus Pevsner</a> with the comment "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest".<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It now houses the <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_County_Hall_Museum" title="Abingdon County Hall Museum">Abingdon County Hall Museum</a> and is run by <a href="/wiki/English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">Historic England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_folklore">Culture and folklore</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Culture and folklore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_bun_throwing" title="Abingdon bun throwing">Abingdon bun throwing</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abingdon_Bun_Throwing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Abingdon_Bun_Throwing.jpg/170px-Abingdon_Bun_Throwing.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Abingdon_Bun_Throwing.jpg/255px-Abingdon_Bun_Throwing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Abingdon_Bun_Throwing.jpg/340px-Abingdon_Bun_Throwing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="532" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Children running for a bun in 2006</figcaption></figure> <p>Bun-throwing is an Abingdon tradition that began with the 1761 <a href="/wiki/Coronation" title="Coronation">Coronation</a> of <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">King George III</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This longstanding tradition of the town has local dignitaries throwing <a href="/wiki/Bun" title="Bun">buns</a> (5,000 buns in 2018) from the roof of the <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_County_Hall_Museum" title="Abingdon County Hall Museum">Abingdon County Hall Museum</a> into crowds assembled in the <a href="/wiki/Market_square" title="Market square">market square</a> below on specific days of celebration (such as royal marriages, coronations and <a href="/wiki/Jubilee" title="Jubilee">jubilees</a>). The museum has a collection of the buns, dried and varnished, dating back to bun-throwings of the 19th century. To date there have been 35 bun-throwing events. Since 2000, there have been bun-throwing ceremonies to commemorate the <a href="/wiki/Millennium" title="Millennium">Millennium</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Jubilee_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II">Golden Jubilee</a> of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> in 2002, the 450th anniversary of the town's being granted a <a href="/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a> in 2006, the <a href="/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_William_and_Catherine_Middleton" title="Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton">Royal Wedding</a> of <a href="/wiki/Prince_William" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince William">Prince William</a> and <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Middleton" class="mw-redirect" title="Catherine Middleton">Catherine Middleton</a> in 2011, the <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II">Diamond Jubilee</a> of Elizabeth II in 2012, the centenary of the end of the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> in November 2018 and the <a href="/wiki/Platinum_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_II" title="Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II">Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II</a> in 2022.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Every October,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Abingdon <a href="/wiki/Michaelmas" title="Michaelmas">Michaelmas</a> <a href="/wiki/Fair" title="Fair">Fair</a> is run. Extending to the length of a mile,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the fair is thought to be the longest<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ffrench_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ffrench-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and oldest<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Street_fair" title="Street fair">street fair</a> in Europe. It runs through the Market Place, High Street, and Ock Street.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fair was originally a <a href="/wiki/Hiring_fair" class="mw-redirect" title="Hiring fair">hiring fair</a>, designed to allow <a href="/wiki/Farmworker" title="Farmworker">farmworkers</a> from rural areas to find work in the town<sup id="cite_ref-:0_59-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> following the <a href="/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> in 1348/9.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fair, previously run on the first Monday and Tuesday before 11 October each year, the fair's dates were extended in 2024 to also run one day earlier, from the Sunday to the Monday.<sup id="cite_ref-Ffrench_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ffrench-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The much smaller Runaway Fair is run the Monday following the Michaelmas Fair,<sup id="cite_ref-abingdon.gov.uk_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abingdon.gov.uk-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was traditionally for workers who were unsatisfied with their employment after the first week, and sought to "run away" and return to the town to find better job opportunities.<sup id="cite_ref-abingdon.gov.uk_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abingdon.gov.uk-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abingdon has a very old and still active <a href="/wiki/Morris_dance" title="Morris dance">Morris dancing</a> tradition, passed on since before the <a href="/wiki/British_folk_revival" title="British folk revival">folk dance</a> and song revivals in the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Every year a Mayor of Ock Street is elected by the inhabitants of Ock Street; he then parades through the town preceded by the famous <a href="/wiki/Horns_of_Ock_Street" title="Horns of Ock Street">Horns of Ock Street</a>, a symbol of Abingdon's Morris Dance troupe. </p><p>The Friends of Abingdon's Unicorn Theatre, housed in the old Abbey buildings, is the site of first productions of many stage adaptations of <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld" title="Discworld">Discworld</a></i> novels by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Briggs" title="Stephen Briggs">Stephen Briggs</a>. <a href="/wiki/Old_Speckled_Hen" title="Old Speckled Hen">Old Speckled Hen</a> <a href="/wiki/Ale" title="Ale">ale</a> was originally brewed by <a href="/wiki/Morland_Brewery" title="Morland Brewery">Morland</a>'s of Abingdon to commemorate the <a href="/wiki/MG_Cars" class="mw-redirect" title="MG Cars">MG</a> factory in the town. It continues to be brewed by <a href="/wiki/Greene_King_Brewery" class="mw-redirect" title="Greene King Brewery">Greene King</a> along with several complementary beers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The rock band <a href="/wiki/Radiohead" title="Radiohead">Radiohead</a> formed at <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_School" title="Abingdon School">Abingdon School</a> in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-MCLEAN_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCLEAN-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Abingdonians">Abingdonians</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Abingdonians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><i>See also <a href="/wiki/Abbot_of_Abingdon" title="Abbot of Abingdon">Abbot of Abingdon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_School" title="Abingdon School">Abingdon School</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Old_Abingdonians" title="List of Old Abingdonians">List of Old Abingdonians</a>.</i></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfric_of_Abingdon" title="Ælfric of Abingdon">Ælfric of Abingdon</a>, 10th-century <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Abingdon" title="Alexander of Abingdon">Alexander of Abingdon</a>, late 13th-century/early-14th-century sculptor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Chung" title="Sammy Chung">Sammy Chung</a>, British former football manager</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Creemer_Clarke" title="John Creemer Clarke">John Creemer Clarke</a> (1821–95), clothing manufacturer (Hyde and Clarke), JP, MP, benefactor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Couldrey" title="Oswald Couldrey">Oswald Couldrey</a> (1882–1958), British artist, poet and author, attended <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_School" title="Abingdon School">Abingdon School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Charles_Dickens_(actor)" title="Gerald Charles Dickens (actor)">Gerald Charles Dickens</a>, actor and great great grandson of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, lives in Abingdon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Edger" title="Kate Edger">Kate Edger</a> was born in Abingdon and became the first NZ woman graduate</li> <li>Saint <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Rich" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Rich">Edmund of Abingdon</a>, 13th-century <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a>, was born in Abingdon, as were his sisters, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Alice" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Alice">Saint Alice</a> of Catesby and the Blessed Margaret Rich</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Garraway" title="Kate Garraway">Kate Garraway</a>, former <a href="/wiki/GMTV" title="GMTV">GMTV</a> and now <a href="/wiki/Daybreak_(2010_TV_programme)" title="Daybreak (2010 TV programme)">Daybreak</a> presenter, born in Abingdon and attended <a href="/wiki/Fitzharrys_School" title="Fitzharrys School">Fitzharrys school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Goodman" title="Michelle Goodman">Michelle Goodman</a>, Pilot and First Female Pilot to receive the DFC (b. 1976), lives in Abingdon.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Hingley" title="Tom Hingley">Tom Hingley</a>, lead singer of <a href="/wiki/Oldham" title="Oldham">Oldham</a> band <a href="/wiki/Inspiral_Carpets" title="Inspiral Carpets">Inspiral Carpets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Jessel" title="David Jessel">David Jessel</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> foreign correspondent and justice campaigner, born in Abingdon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Maude" title="Francis Maude">Francis Maude</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> MP, born in Abingdon and attended Abingdon School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mayhew-Archer" title="Paul Mayhew-Archer">Paul Mayhew-Archer</a>, comedy writer and actor. Taught drama at <a href="/wiki/John_Mason_School" title="John Mason School">John Mason School</a> and co-wrote <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vicar_of_Dibley" title="The Vicar of Dibley">The Vicar of Dibley</a></i>; currently lives in Abingdon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alain_Menu" title="Alain Menu">Alain Menu</a>, <a href="/wiki/World_Touring_Car_Championship" title="World Touring Car Championship">World Touring Car Championship</a> driver, lives in Abingdon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mitchell_(comedian)" title="David Mitchell (comedian)">David Mitchell</a>, actor and comedian, attended Abingdon School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Penny" title="Tom Penny">Tom Penny</a>, professional <a href="/wiki/Skateboarding" title="Skateboarding">skateboarder</a>: skateboards for <a href="/wiki/Flip_Skateboards" title="Flip Skateboards">Flip Skateboards</a> and attended <a href="/wiki/Fitzharrys_School" title="Fitzharrys School">Fitzharrys School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radiohead" title="Radiohead">Radiohead</a>, the rock band, formed as students at Abingdon School<sup id="cite_ref-MCLEAN_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCLEAN-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Richardson" title="Dorothy Richardson">Dorothy Richardson</a>, novelist, born in Abingdon. She was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as the stream-of-consciousness technique.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Spiers" title="John Spiers">John Spiers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melodeon_(accordian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Melodeon (accordian)">melodeon</a> player best known as a member of the band <a href="/wiki/Bellowhead" title="Bellowhead">Bellowhead</a> which broke up in 2016</li> <li>Stephen of Abingdon, 14th-century <a href="/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_the_City_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Mayor of the City of London">Lord Mayor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Taylor_(footballer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Matthew Taylor (footballer)">Matthew Taylor</a>, footballer, grew up in the town and attended John Mason School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tesdale" title="Thomas Tesdale">Thomas Tesdale</a>, 16th-century local benefactor and eventual founder of <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Oxford" title="Pembroke College, Oxford">Pembroke College, Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Tombs" title="Henry Tombs">Sir Henry Tombs</a> (1825–74), a recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a>, attended Abingdon School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Tompsett" title="Oliver Tompsett">Oliver Tompsett</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> star, best known for appearing as <a href="/wiki/List_of_Wicked_characters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Wicked characters">Fiyero</a> in the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Wicked_(musical)" title="Wicked (musical)">Wicked</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Victoria_Theatre" title="Apollo Victoria Theatre">Apollo Victoria Theatre</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Whitehead" title="Dean Whitehead">Dean Whitehead</a>, footballer, was born in Abingdon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kit_Young" title="Kit Young">Kit Young</a>, actor from Abingdon, attended Abingdon School</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abingdon_and_Witney_College" title="Abingdon and Witney College">Abingdon and Witney College</a>: provides further education.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abingdon_School" title="Abingdon School">Abingdon School</a>: independent, 11–18 and <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Preparatory_School" title="Abingdon Preparatory School">Abingdon Preparatory School</a> 4–13, forming the <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Foundation" title="Abingdon Foundation">Abingdon Foundation</a>).</li> <li>The Consortium: local authority, mixed, a partnership of schools including Abingdon and Witney College and the following secondary schools: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fitzharrys_School" title="Fitzharrys School">Fitzharrys School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larkmead_School" title="Larkmead School">Larkmead School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mason_School" title="John Mason School">John Mason School</a></li> <li>Europa School, UK which replaced <a href="/wiki/European_School,_Culham" title="European School, Culham">European School, Culham</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Lady%27s_Abingdon" title="Our Lady's Abingdon">Our Lady's Abingdon</a>: private, mixed, 3–18.</li> <li>School of <a href="/wiki/St_Helen_and_St_Katharine" title="St Helen and St Katharine">St Helen and St Katharine</a>: private, girls, 9–18.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_relations">International relations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: International relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abingdon is <a href="/wiki/Sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister cities">twinned</a> with: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argentan" title="Argentan">Argentan</a>, France<sup id="cite_ref-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sint-Niklaas" title="Sint-Niklaas">Sint-Niklaas</a>, Belgium<sup id="cite_ref-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schongau,_Bavaria" title="Schongau, Bavaria">Schongau</a>, Germany<sup id="cite_ref-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns_70-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucca" title="Lucca">Lucca</a>, Italy<sup id="cite_ref-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns_70-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abingdon-on-Thames_Twin_Towns-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Freedom_of_the_Town">Freedom of the Town</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Freedom of the Town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following people and military units have received the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City" title="Freedom of the City">Freedom of the Town</a> of 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title="Edit section: Military Units"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/RAF_Abingdon" title="RAF Abingdon">RAF Abingdon</a>: <b>1955</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12_Regiment_RLC" title="12 Regiment RLC">12 Regiment</a>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Logistic_Corps" title="Royal Logistic Corps">RLC</a>: <b>8 December 2010</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Monks%27_Map" title="Abingdon Monks' Map">Abingdon Monks' Map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Abingdon_Sword" class="mw-redirect" title="The Abingdon Sword">The Abingdon Sword</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Park,_Abingdon" title="Albert Park, Abingdon">Albert Park, Abingdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_and_St_Edmund%27s_Church,_Abingdon" title="Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon">Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abingdon-on-Thames&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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title="Milton, Vale of White Horse">Milton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Hinksey" title="North Hinksey">North Hinksey</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Botley,_Oxfordshire" title="Botley, Oxfordshire">Botley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harcourt_Hill" title="Harcourt Hill">Harcourt Hill</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radley" title="Radley">Radley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Helen_Without" title="St. Helen Without">St. Helen Without</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dry_Sandford" title="Dry Sandford">Dry Sandford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shippon" title="Shippon">Shippon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrivenham" title="Shrivenham">Shrivenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanford_in_the_Vale" title="Stanford in the Vale">Stanford in the Vale</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bow,_Oxfordshire" title="Bow, Oxfordshire">Bow</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steventon,_Oxfordshire" title="Steventon, Oxfordshire">Steventon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunningwell" title="Sunningwell">Sunningwell</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayworth" title="Bayworth">Bayworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boars_Hill" title="Boars Hill">Boars Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Foxcombe_Hill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Foxcombe Hill (page does not exist)">Foxcombe Hill</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton_Courtenay" title="Sutton Courtenay">Sutton Courtenay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watchfield" title="Watchfield">Watchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wootton,_Vale_of_White_Horse" title="Wootton, Vale of White Horse">Wootton</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boars_Hill" title="Boars Hill">Boars Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henwood" title="Henwood">Henwood</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lamborough_Hill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lamborough Hill (page does not exist)">Lamborough Hill</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other civil parishes<br />(component villages<br />and hamlets)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appleford-on-Thames" title="Appleford-on-Thames">Appleford-on-Thames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appleton-with-Eaton" title="Appleton-with-Eaton">Appleton-with-Eaton</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appleton,_Oxfordshire" title="Appleton, Oxfordshire">Appleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eaton,_Oxfordshire" title="Eaton, Oxfordshire">Eaton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ardington_and_Lockinge" title="Ardington and Lockinge">Ardington and Lockinge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ardington" title="Ardington">Ardington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ardington_Wick" title="Ardington Wick">Ardington Wick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lockinge" title="East Lockinge">East Lockinge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Lockinge" title="West Lockinge">West Lockinge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Ginge" title="West Ginge">West Ginge</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashbury,_Oxfordshire" title="Ashbury, Oxfordshire">Ashbury</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Idstone" title="Idstone">Idstone</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kingstone_Winslow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kingstone Winslow (page does not exist)">Kingstone Winslow</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baulking" title="Baulking">Baulking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Besselsleigh" title="Besselsleigh">Besselsleigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourton,_Vale_of_White_Horse" title="Bourton, Vale of White Horse">Bourton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckland,_Oxfordshire" title="Buckland, Oxfordshire">Buckland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gainfield" title="Gainfield">Gainfield</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buscot" title="Buscot">Buscot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charney_Bassett" title="Charney Bassett">Charney Bassett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Childrey" title="Childrey">Childrey</a></li> <li><a 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