Thames Riverside Walk – Abingdon Town Centre loop from Abingdon

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Thames Riverside Walk – Abingdon Town Centre loop from Abingdon

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Thames Riverside Walk – Abingdon Town Centre loop from Abingdon

01:21

22.6km

80m

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Easy bike ride. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 31, 2026

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Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 580 m for 67 m

After 725 m for 67 m

After 21.8 km for 65 m

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Parking

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686 m

Thames Riverside Walk

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Nice walk along the Thames.. Especially nice in the evening hours as the sun reflects off the water.

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White's Plantation

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21.8 km

Abingdon County Hall has dominated the Market Place, in the heart of Abingdon, since the late 17th century.

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Constructed between 1678 and 1682, the old town hall has the typical combination for the period of a market space sheltering under a courtroom. Examples of this type of building that are earlier in date survive elsewhere as timber-framed free-standing town halls.

Abingdon gains architectural distinction, however, from being built in Oxfordshire limestone; it is a monumental presence despite its compact site.

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Sir Christopher Wren is the most celebrated architect of this period working in this idiom, and in the 1670s he was busy on the designs for rebuilding St Paul’s Cathedral. It has been suggested that Abingdon County Hall was one of his designs, and it was certainly constructed by two men he respected and worked with closely: Christopher Kempster, master mason, and John Scarborough, clerk of works.

Cit. english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/abingdon-county-hall-museum/history

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21.9 km

St Nicolas' Church, Abingdon

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The Church of Saint Nicolas is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly within Berkshire).

The church was added to the gateway of the already-existing Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary around the year 1170, although the oldest remaining piece is reportedly from 1180.
While the monks used the abbey church, St Nicolas's was built for their lay servants and tenants.

The Normans propagated the cult of Saint Nicholas and many English churches are named after him.

The earliest documentary evidence of this church's existence is in a ruling about tithes in 1177 by Pope Alexander III. Saint Edmund of Abingdon worshipped there as a child and his mother was initially buried there. From its early years, there is evidence that a school used a room in St Nicolas which has links with the founding of Abingdon School.
A tower was added and the chancel rebuilt in the 15th century.

Cit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicolas_Church,_Abingdon

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21.9 km