Mobile tyres fitting service in Abingdon Oxfordshire
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We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
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to travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres
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reduces our operating costs so we are able to slash our
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Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
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More about Abingdon Oxfordshire
Abingdon is a market town in the Thames Valley,
Oxfordshire in southern England and is one of several
places which claim to be Britain's oldest continuously
occupied town. It is the District Town of the Vale of
White Horse District.
The site has been occupied from the early to middle Iron
Age, and the remains of a late Iron Age defensive
enclosure, or oppidum, underlie the town centre. The
oppidum was in use throughout the Roman occupation.
William the Conqueror in 1084 celebrated Easter at
Abingdon, and left his son, afterwards Henry I, to be
educated at the abbey.
The abbot seems to have held a market from very early
times, and charters for the holding of markets and fairs
were granted by various sovereigns from Edward I to
George II. In the 13th and 14th centuries Abingdon was a
flourishing agricultural centre with an extensive trade
in wool, and a famous weaving and clothing manufacture.
Abingdon was the county town of Berkshire but and the
magnificent county hall and court house, now the museum,
was designed by Christopher Wren. However Abingdon's
failure to engage fully with the railway revolution,
accepting only a branch line sidelined the town in
favour of Reading. The corporation was reformed under
the Municipal Reform Act 1835, and was abolished under
the Local Government Act 1972. In 1974 under local
government reorganisation Abingdon became part of
Oxfordshire, and the Vale of White Horse District
Council, with Abingdon becoming a civil parish with a
town council.
In recent times Abingdon is best known as the location
of manufacture of MG cars (1929-1980). The Pavlova
leather works, now closed down, used to be a major
employer. Major scientific employers nearby include the
UKAEA at Culham (including the Joint European Torus
(JET) fusion research project), Harwell Laboratory, the
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the new Diamond
Light Source synchrotron, which is the largest UK-funded
scientific facility to be built for over 30 years. Many
inhabitants work in Oxford, or commute by rail to London
from nearby Didcot. The Army now occupies Dalton
Barracks, which prior to 1993 was the Royal Air Force
station RAF Abingdon.
Abingdon is six miles south of Oxford in the flat valley
of the Thames, on the west (right) bank, where the small
river Ock flows in from the Vale of White Horse.
Of a Benedictine abbey there remains a beautiful
Perpendicular gateway (common local knowledge, however,
is that it was actually rebuilt out of the rubble, and a
little cursory examination of the patternation of the
stonework will divulge this!), and ruins of buildings
called the prior's house, mainly Early English, and the
guest house, with other fragments.
The picturesque narrow-arched bridge over the Thames
near St Helen's Church dates originally from 1416. St
Helen's Church itself dates from around 1100 and is the
second widest church in England, having 5 aisles and
being 10ft(3m) wider than it is long.
The most distinguished landmark in Abingdon is probably
the building which now houses the Abingdon Museum, but
which was formerly the county hall of Berkshire (the
town was county town until it ceded that title to
Reading in 1867): a building hailed as the "grandest
town hall in Britain" and built by Christopher Kempster,
who worked with Christopher Wren on St Paul's Cathedral.
A longstanding tradition of the town has local
dignitaries throwing buns from the roof of the Abingdon
Museum for crowds assembled in the market square on
specific days of celebration (such as royal
marriages/coronations/jubilee), although many residents
are unaware of this, due t the rarity of occurrences.
Abingdon has a very old and still active Morris Dancing
tradition, passed on by word of mouth since before the
folk dance and song revivals of the 1800s.[1]
The Friends of Abingdon's Unicorn Theatre, housed in the
old Abbey buildings, is the site of first productions of
many stage adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld
novels, by Stephen Briggs. Abingdon is one of several
real-world locales to provide Pratchett with inspiration
for Ankh-Morpork, a major city on the Discworld.
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