Daniel has been filming above the Abbey Fields development north of Dunmore Road in Abingdon and I have taken a couple of stills from his film.

This pictures looks south west towards Tilsley park.

This one looks north east towards Lodge Hill. It is on a larger scale that the Kingsgate development for David Wilson Homes.

Abbey Fields carries the brand Barratt Homes.

Barratt Developments PLC owns three consumer brands: Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Barratt London. From what I can gather David Wilson Homes are for the higher end of the market.

Daniel is fully airborne again and flying like an eagle over the new development – called Kingsgate, between the Wootton Road and the Dunmore Road.

Some of the houses are complete or nearing completion.

Others are just outlines in the snow.

Abingdon had stopped expanding after the large expansion through the 1940s-1980s, but now Abingdon is growing again.

I went down to Dunmore Road to check out on the progress of the housing developments: Abbey Fields and Kings Gate.

There will be no more wheat harvests in Abbey Fields. Instead there are likely to be grass lawns, a variety of flowers, bushes and trees between houses. There could even be a few small ponds.

At Kings Gatey I was interested to see how builders make bow windows using breeze blocks. It is rough inside and a smooth outside.

A lot of the chestnut trees were cut down in front of Kings Gate. The ones that remain have made a lot of conkers.

It looks like Daniel is airborne again with a replacement drone. He gave it a test flight near the Abbey Field development north of Abingdon, where there is now a tarmac road.

The road crosses the footpath to Sunningwell, and goes through the woodland near Tilsley Park.

More work can be seen beyond the trees with the A34 in the distance.

Daniel also emailed to say that the Red Arrows were flying over early this evening. The red arrows were returning from a show in Bournemouth and Abingdon was on the flightpath. This image is taken from Daniel’s youtube video … https://youtu.be/ySvZ0dUBJEs.