Council Facilities
Abingdon Town Council is responsible for the Market Place and also for the open spaces listed below. The Council is responsible for Abingdon Cemetery.
Abingdon Town Play Areas
Elizabeth Avenue, Peachcroft
Hill View (off Farm Road)
Chilton Close (off Appleford Drive)
Chauntrell Way (Tithe Farm Estate)
Masefield play area (off Masefield Crescent)
River Close (off Preston Road)
Caldecott recreation area
Boxhill recreation area
Allotments
The three allotment sites in Abingdon are managed by allotment associations. If you live in Abingdon and you are interested in renting an allotment, please contact the associations below:
Drayton Road allotments http://www.draytonroadallotments.org.uk/
John Watson (chairman) 07770 575236
Simon Bolam (secretary) 07765 844649
West End allotments
Mr David Creese (chairman)
14 Marcham Road
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 1AA
Tel: 01235 526161
Email: davidcreese@aol.com
Wildmoor allotments Long Tow (off Wootton Road)
Mr Tony Hammond (Lettings)
Tel: 01235 539509
Residents of villages near Abingdon should contact their Parish Council. Details of parish contacts for allotments, cemeteries and other village services may be found via the County Council website.
Abingdon Cemetery
Spring Gardens
Abingdon
OX14 1AZ
Tel: 01235 553480
cemetery@abingdon.gov.uk
This is the Cemetery's formal address. Cemetery Road is the old, closed cemetery used for interments until the 1860s. Family history research can be undertaken free of charge through Oxfordshire and Berkshire records using the library service and public computers in the two counties.
Information regarding deeds, graves and interments
Enquiries about deeds should be made to Abingdon Town Council on 01235 522642.
Abingdon Town Council is also responsible for the closed churchyard of St Helen.