Abingdon-on-Thames
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 17 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SU4997 | ||
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| Residents | 36,626 (as of 2001) | ||
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| Post town | Abingdon | ||
| ZIP code section | OX14 | ||
| prefix | 01235 | ||
| Shire county | Oxfordshire | ||
| Website: abingdon.gov.uk | |||
Abingdon-on-Thames (also known as Abingdon ) is a town with 36,626 inhabitants (2001) in the county of Oxfordshire in south-east England . The city is on the Thames about nine kilometers south of Oxford and eight kilometers north of Didcot . It is the capital of the Vale of White Horse District . Until 1974 it belongs to the county of Berkshire and was its administrative seat. The River Ock flows into the Thames at Abingdon.
history
The Neolithic mine at Abingdon was discovered by Pastor Charles Overy, published by E. Thurlow Leeds and listed in 2004 as a scheduled monument. It lies north of the Thames on a spur of Summertown-Radley gravel bounded by the two creek valleys. Two concentric trenches lie between the streams; a third, similar trench may have been in the south. The enclosure was at the highest point.
The Oxford area's Summertown-Radley gravels are rich in prehistoric finds.
Abingdon is one of those places that claim to be the oldest permanently inhabited city in Britain. The place was supposedly founded as early as the Iron Age .
It also claims to have the oldest monastery in England, Abingdon Abbey , but Glastonbury also claims the same . Legends date the abbey to be founded in AD 166; Confirmed findings date their foundation to the 7th century. William the Conqueror celebrated Easter 1084 in the monastery and his son Heinrich, who later became King Henry I , was educated here. The place was a trading center for wool and cloth in the Middle Ages. In the 19th century, the city was a bit sidelined because it was not well integrated into the railway network. From 1929 to 1980, the British car brand MG had a factory in the city. The city lost importance when in 1974 Berkshire was given up as an administrative unit.
economy
Abingdon today benefits from the dynamic development of the Oxford region. Several companies from the field of new technologies have settled here. Here, for example, is the headquarters of the company Sophos .
Until it closed in 2000 after being taken over by Greene King Brewery , Morland Brewery in Abingdon produced the well-known pale ale "Old Speckled Hen" in England .
Town twinning
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Argentan in Normandy (France) -
Lucca in Tuscany (Italy) -
Sint-Niklaas (Belgium) -
Schongau in Bavaria (Germany)
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757–1829), politician and speaker of the British House of Commons
- Kate Edger (1857–1935), mathematician and educator; first woman in New Zealand and one of the first women in the British Empire to graduate from university
- Andrew Hedges (1935-2005), racing car driver
- Tom Hingley (* 1965), musician and songwriter
- Edward Moore (1712–1757), English playwright, writer and editor
- Edmund of Abingdon (around 1174–1240), philosopher and theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), essayist and writer
- Michelle Stephenson (born 1977), singer
- Dean Whitehead , soccer player
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Census, 2001
- ↑ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1021368
- ^ E. Thurlow Leeds, The Neolithic Site at Abingdon. Antiquaries Journal 9/1, 1929, 31; E. Thurlow Leeds, A Neolithic Site at Abingdon Berks. {Second Report), Antiquaries Journal 7, 1928, 461-477
- ↑ Humphrey Case, The Neolithic causewayed camp at Abingdon, Berks. Antiquaries Journal 36 (1-2), 1956, 11. doi: 10.1017 / S0003581500060339.
- ↑ Article in the 'Oxford Mail'
- ^ Abingdon in David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History online
- ↑ Abingdon Abbey in David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History (online)