Abingdon is nestled neatly in between the A34 and the River Thames, approx. 8 miles south of Oxford.
The historic market town of Abingdon has been occupied since the early iron age and Abingdon Abbey was founded around 676 which provided the name to the expanding settlement.
Morland brewery based in Abingdon produced the famous Old Speckled Hen Ale which was named after an early MG car.
Abingdon Festivals; Truck Festival in Steventon, Beacon Festival in Watlington, Henley Festival in Henley-on-Thames & Peace in the Park at Nuneham Park, Oxford. Bunkfest, Wallingford.
Abingdon has many sports facilities, Abingdon United F.C & Abingdon Town F.C. who play at Culham Road along, Abingdon RUFC who now play at Dalton Barracks and Abingdon Vale Cricket Club who are based at Hales Meadows.
Abingdon is also home to Abingdon Rowing Club, Abingdon Athletics Club & the Oxford Saints American Football Club who play their games at Abingdon School’s Tilsley Park.
Cutting-edge businesses are located at Milton Park and the twentieth oldest independent British boys’ school, Abingdon School is in the heart of the town on Park Road.
South of Abingdon is the railway town of Didcot in the county of Oxfordshire, situated 10 miles east of Wantage and 15 miles north west of Reading. Widely known for its power stations and science centres including Harwell Science and innovation campus; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Culham Science Centre & Milton Park. The Diamond Light Source Synchrotron is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for more than 30 years.
Didcot has been inhabited for at least 9000 years which was proved by archaeological digs between 2010 – 2013 which produced finds from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Iron Age and Bronze Age.
Didcot has links with Williams Grand Prix Engineering until their move to Grove where they are still based today. Grove is now the largest village in the Vale of White Horse.
The village of Blewbury is situated at the foot of the Berkshire Downs about four miles south of Didcot. It was also part of Berkshire until the boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire in 1974.
Goring-on-Thames is on the main railway line between Oxford and London. The Thames Path, Icknield Way and the Ridgeway cross the Thames at Goring. In 2009 Goring won Oxfordshire’s Village of the year, taking the title from its neighbour Woodcote, the prize money was put towards generating electricity from the river Thames.
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