Abingdon

Historic Oxfordshire market

Abingdon is a town in Oxfordshire, England, one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in Britain.

The name also appears in several American places, most notably Abingdon, Virginia.

The Abingdon Abbey was dissolved under Henry VIII.

English

Oxfordshire

Midlands county in England

county · parish · dialect · vernacular · place name

town

municipality

Local governing district

  • market townSettlement with regular trading
  • boroughAdministrative town or district
  • civicPertaining to community affairs

Thames · council · district · community · neighborhood · population · residential · infrastructure · precinct · plaza

historic

abbey

Monastic house of worship

medieval · Victorian · conservation · restoration · architecture · relic · artifact · archive · museum · archaeology

Categories
Opposites
urban prominence/political centrality

AbingdonLondon

England's capital city

Westminster · Washington D.C. · capital city · metropolis · Oxford

regional identity within England

AbingdonLondon

England's capital city

Birmingham · Manchester · Liverpool · Leeds · industrial city

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Top 1,000,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G