There is a new sculpture in the public area on the riverside of the Old Gaol development.

The sculpture is made of three interlocking octagons, and is lit up in three colours at night. The octagon could well represent the octagonal central block of the old Gaol, from which the three cell blocks project.

But Octagons are commonplace in Abingdon. There is the badge of the MG – a car formally made in Abingdon. There is also the Octagon Restaurant at the Four Pillars Hotel. Somebody in an open top MG asked me yesterday for the way to the Four Pillars Hotel. I directed them from the town centre to the hotel near the Marcham Interchange off the A34 – back the way they had just come.