After getting planning permission, work has started on the Aldi Store off the Wootton Road, in the former circus field, in Abingdon.

Thanks to Daniel who has a video to show the start of work.

The demolition of the Tesco garden centre on Marcham Road has been completed. The ground will be used by a four-story Premier Inn hotel.

Thank you to Daniel for more drone pictures of the Abingdon’s new estate by the Wootton Road. Driving past the other day my wife said it looked like Toy Town.

Turn the drone round and the land looks less like Toy Town and more like a building site.

You can see a lot more on Daniel’s youtube video at https://youtu.be/TsN62B9sJv0.

There was an article in the Abingdon Herald  saying ‘Abingdon school boy has chosen the name of a new development’ Abbey Fields. It is an excellent name. There has been excitement around the Dunmore Road area because the first houses have appeared at Abbey Fields.

The housebuilder is Barratt, well known to some of us for their 1970s helicopter adverts.


Meanwhile at Kings Gate the first houses have been occupied.

The road into the estate has been called Morgan Vale after former Mayor and Freeman of Abingdon, Janet Morgan. The Oxford Mail had an obituary.