(fn. came into existence; the present works were constructed in 1854, and have since been largely extended. (fn. south-west, and is joined by a lane running south from the village. Hinksey is a place name associated with Oxford and Oxfordshire. The City Council approved the plan in May 1899 subject to the width of Kineton Road being increased from 30 feet to 36 feet. manors from Richard Wenman and his wife Isabel, early in the 13th century. Two old boys, who were also the lifeguards, used to empty and scrub all around the pools with brooms. I breathed a silent thank you for the morning. history is not recorded, and it seems to have fallen In addition Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Bing also collects the data of visitors including device used and links clicked; other third party applications also collect this sort of data. Demand for clean water was rising: by 1885 all the houses in the city were connected to the mains and the works were supplying two million gallons of relatively clean water a day. is given to a poor boy or to a poor widow with In 1934, Hinksey Park was laid out in New Hinksey. 21) and its claims to be considered an independent manor are very doubtful. 1) but neither I had made friends with trees there, also reeds and grasses, an imprint of the horizon beyond on my minds eye alongside bird companions; cormorants, herons, geese and swans. Oxford West and Abingdon County Constituency, List of parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hinksey&oldid=1139109358, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 11:59. A simple but attractive decorative scheme using dark blue engineering bricks (some stamped 'Joseph Hamblet West Bromwich') was used around the windows of the Davey engine house. Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west Oxford. and two years later he acquired the manor of Cumnor. Oxford's suburban expansion to the east, west and south gathered pace in the 1890s when there was a nationwide building boom, fuelled by rising real wages. Around 25 years ago I stumbled across morning pages; writing every morning as a stream of consciousness to rekindle creativity. The longer I sat the more came, water boatman surfed on water meniscus, damsel flies darted, and dragon flies landed on my knees. Last edited on 10 September 2021, at 22:28, This is South Hinksey, Oxfordshire England, "Area selected: Vale of White Horse (Non-Metropolitan District)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Hinksey&oldid=1043594409, This page was last edited on 10 September 2021, at 22:28. This Oxfordshire location article is a stub. It looks out across the popular Hinksey Park. These he later displayed at the Town Hall under a microscope. I slowed down floating on my back. My parents met us there to share the morning swim. There are several old quarries in the western part Hinksey Lake footbridge is located 1.6 miles (2575m) from Oxford Railway Station and 4.5 miles (7,242m) from Radley Railway Station. blocks and keystones, all of the 18th century. How to hold conscious intention with a yet unknown outcome? If I get in the water and I want to get out, then I can. third windows of the south wall are simple 13thcentury lancets and the second window is of two They relied on a waterwheel to power a three-barrelled pump. The Centre is managed by a charity, the South Oxford Community Association, whose Trustees care about the Community Centre and the local community and give their time voluntarily. 8d., are applied in the payment 15 ft. 9 in., nave 42 ft. 9 in. Every donation of 50, for example, sponsors one metre of brand new boardwalk. Addy and John became life-long friends, and John later married Addys sister Judy. In the south wall of the nave, towards the ); Southengseye (xv cent.). The committee included Mrs Horwood of Marlborough Road, whose 12-year-old daughter Brenda became treasurer. The pumping station with its chimney can be seen in the background. Email: enquiries@southoxford.orgPhone: 01865 242666, Community fridge Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, May Artweeks 20th, 21st, 27th, 28th & 29th May, Christmas art event 26th & 27th November. 2) Image courtesy of Brasenose College, ref: D0530. Go to the water and get in please just go there, I said to myself in my distress, feeling helpless. Hinksey Park Management Plan 2018-2022 . Watch this space! It is belonged to Robert Hethe, (fn. (Eventually charges were introduced - in 1960 it was 1 shilling [5p] for adults and 6 old pence [2p] for children, though children could swim for free before 1pm). The first houses were built in 1880 at the northern end of Marlborough Road, nearest the river, on the eastern part of a piece of land originally owned by University College and known as Friars Mead. Description the other co-heir, in 1561. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Most of the 114 lots were on a new street called Sunningwell Road. In the 14th century I pulled myself out onto the exposed edges of earths skin where water meets land. Hinksey is called a chapelry of Cumnor, and the To explore The Year of Magical Swimming on the Wild Swim Map click here. See our membership page for details of becoming a member of the Community Association and support the Centre by making a donation, helping at events or consider becoming a Trustee. In the 19th century John Ruskin tried to organize the making of a road between the two villages, as the ground between them was very boggy. Organisers decided Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions meant the dive could not go . Note the presence of East Wick Farm, the Berkshire House and the New Hinksey Inn, the city waterworks, and the original chapel-school (marked 'St John's Church') and vicarage. They were bought up by speculative builders, usually in blocks. families. Houses were built with front gardens edged by dwarf walls topped by iron railings. 10) In 1902 the eastern section of the grounds nearest Abingdon Road (known as Hinksey Step) was handed over to the Corporations Playground Committee (and is still the site of a playground and sports field today). seisin, but after hearing representations from the When it was first created, the parish extended to the River Thames, but in 1889 the new suburb of New Hinksey, between the Thames and Hinksey Stream, was transferred to the City of Oxford. The road was named after the Duke of Marlborough, who had originally owned much of the land in the area. SOUTH HINKSEY. Time passed, ducks and geese slipped past me down river. South Hinksey. Building was slow to begin however, and the first house plans were not submitted to the City Engineer for approval until March 1887. In 1985 Percy bought 310 acres overlooking the Dreaming Spires of Oxford from the Harcourt Estate. A stroll along the nature trail offers stunning views down onto the city of Oxford and winds through woodland, reedland and fen. [6], There are now two villages, North Hinksey to the west of the city of Oxford and South Hinksey to the southwest. complained to the king that the mill had been 2s. that there was a manor here. with water from Hinksey since its water-works first the parish, a short distance to the west of Hinksey He afterwards came to the conclusion, however, (Click image to close), Cartoon of 'The Grandpont Express' from a postcard entitled 'A Bit of Old Oxford', from Stephanie Jenkins's Oxford History website. The soil is clay, gravel and loam on a subsoil of In the mid to late 19th century the university had undergone a series of reforms which led to a large increase in the number of students, and hence in the number of academic staff (and their families). that it was the quarry from which the stones had been and was annexed to South Hinksey till 1885. to George Owen (fn. Unsurprisingly, therefore, most Oxford inhabitants still preferred to rely on wells; in 1851 less than 10% of houses took the city water supply. However, the waterwheel did not work well when the river was flowing slowly, or in times of high water and flooding, and so Oxford's water supply was very unreliable (as well as being of poor quality, as the water was taken directly from the river, and was unfiltered). the Weirs Mill. Hinksey Park and the open-air swimming pool The city corporation waterworks opened at Lake Street in 1856. The stench, too, in their houses arising from the flood is in some cases very offensive.' In the churchyard, to the north of the nave, are The full force of mountain water on skin came with a smell like forever, and inner peace began glowing in my heart. There is another mill a More pressing was a calling to vast watery life from deep within me, and how to give expression to this deeper instinct. taken to build the church of St. Peter in the East Volunteers from the local community are giving up their time and putting in a lot of hard work to ensure that the trail can continue to be accessible to all who use the trail responsibly. The plate consists of a silver chalice and paten of The dividends, Click here to see a video tour on our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcveyXAoRsP/, Oxford Accountants support Hinksey Heights Nature Trail. 18). the Hinkseys as separate vills occurs in 1316, when Hinksey Lake in South Oxford However, in these unprecedented times, Hinksey Lake has become a hot-spot for open water swimming, primarily because of its close proximity to the city centre, making it a location inside the remit of the COVID-19 travel restrictions. The nave has a two-light square-headed 14thcentury window in the north wall and further west Hub project officer Adriano Figueiredo describes Hinksey Lake as a "huge battery" with energy just going to waste. Finally I got out by the willow tree, red root tips spilling into the water strangely comforting as. with moulded capitals to the responds. Image from Carole Newbigging, The Changing Faces of South Oxford and South Hinksey, Book 3 (Robert Boyd Publications, 2003). I feel such instinctive inspiration, gratitude and a direct relational experience of nature, having felt many seamless dimensions to the light returning and gradually leaving again over the year. That river forms its eastern Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: HT134. The chancel has a plain round-headed window in The parish was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The living of New Hinksey Hinksey (q.v.). The only road access to the village is via the bypass. He enlisted help from the clergy, school teachers, political parties, trades unions and local tradesmen in converting the building into what was to become the forerunner of the South Oxford Community Centre. Lake at South Hinksey . Of course by diveable what we mean is deep enough to dive in. About a quarter of the land in this parish is under She died in November 2014 at the age of 92, having lived in Marlborough Road since she was six, in a house built by her great-grandfather. The city corporation waterworks opened at Lake Street in 1856. The waterworks can be seen on this plan of 1844, drawn up when wharves in the area were being sold at auction. A 4-acre plot of land between this and Whitehouse Lane, known as Roundabout Close, was sold by Brasenose College to John Henry Salter, the Oxford boatbuilder based at Folly Bridge, in April 1899 for 2,500. Photos courtesy of Jenny Atkinson, Ruth Stavris and Nick Thorn. considerable importance. (fn. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) opened its station at the eastern end of the Botley Road in 1851 (where the Sad Business School is now) and a year later the Great Western Railway (GWR) opened its new station immediately adjacent (where the current railway station is). road crosses the stream is the New I appreciated every moment and marvelled how much summer there is still in the winter waters, in colours, smells and sounds. modern lancet lights with ancient external jambs. First, After closure in 1856 the waterworks building became a flock mill and from 1892 it was part of the City Engineer's Depot. the east, north and south walls, with external impost tithes. The company laid out the Grandpont Estate and divided it into 231 plots. Later individual changing huts were added, and above them was a balcony. South Hinksey is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile (1.6km) south of the centre of Oxford. I used to hide from that aged five or six, but now Im so pleased to have music running through my veins. Like most waterworks, it initially employed steam power, first using beam engines and later compound vertical and horizontal engines. The Corporation bought the lake in 1854 for use as a reservoir in association with its new Lake Street waterworks. [2] The Hinksey villages were not mentioned as separate villages until 1316. Acland and other reformers pressed for Oxford to adopt the 1848 Health of Towns Act, but whilst the university's commissioners were in favour, most of the city's representatives opposed it, fearing loss of local autonomy. 28), Before 1743 Montagu second Earl of Abingdon I was regularly returning to certain favourite spots such as The Thames at Godstow, just down from the Lock and the ruined stone nunnery where Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II, had been educated and had returned by water. Our friends at The Sprout, North Hinkseys parish newsletter, have given us 300 towards the 700 we need to buy a new brush-cutter so that we can keep the paths clear over the summer months. There was a fixed building line, so that the houses are all set back ten feet from the pavement, except those on Western Road, where the building line was at nine feet back. The 2019, University of London. In the late 1850s a row of 11 houses (10 semi-detached, one detached) known as Grandpont Villas was built on a small area of land owned by the City Corporation; these are now nos. obtained from him by force. Somewhere the crows own young. Where gravel was dug to build the new railway embankment at New Hinksey, a crater formed which was gradually filled by natural springs to become Hinksey Lake. by 'The old order changeth, yeilding place to the new': dons (old and new) on the High Street, 1882. During a cold new year break the Gresswell and Brimble families opened up the near-impenetrable permissive footpath from the farmyard to the top of the Harcourt Hill bridleway, which became the nature trail that exists today. This map, drawn up prior to the building of the railway, shows the owners of the land over which it was to run as it approached Oxford. The roof is 7) It Folly Bridge from the east, with the 17th-century waterworks and the hexagonal tower of Friar Bacon's study at the southern end. The 15th-century tower arch is pointed and of two The buildings of the pumping station demonstrate changing building materials over the period: the 1856 and 1862 engine houses are of hand-made bricks (commonly used until the end of the 1860s) whereas the later houses are of more uniform machine-made bricks. This map, drawn to accompany Henry Acland's Memoir on the cholera at Oxford, shows how many houses had been built in New Hinksey by 1854. was to be given to every poor widow, and any The pools became a very popular recreational facility for local people and for those from further afield, who would come for the whole day to swim and to picnic in the park. I have kept a dream diary for years. Pedestrian and cycle access to the village from Oxford is via the Devil's Backbone; a historic raised pathway across the neighbouring flood plains that features in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy. Thoughts, feelings, ideas to be written as they came into the mind, with no outcome in mind, but rather to unblock writing, to let out what is said inside, to hear oneself more deeply and to listen. (Click image to close), Extract from the map accompanying Daniel Trinder's Award 1844 (which shows the proposed line of the Great Western Railway as it approached Oxford, just to the west of the Abingdon Road [east is at the top]). west tower was added in the following century, and one time a mill in South Hinksey of 1907 for the Earl of Abingdon, who is a Roman the same descent, through the Norreys and Bertie In March 1887 (by which time there were 73 houses on Marlborough Road) the horse-tram service was extended from Carfax along St Aldates and the Abingdon Road as far as the end of Lake Street in New Hinksey, making the area much more accessible. Opposite was the wayside chapel of St Nicholas, where alms were collected to pay for the repairs.). 30) It is Abingdon, which runs south to the Here, Hinksey Park itself is an 11-acre park, including an open-air swimming pool, off Abingdon Road. This left 67 plots on the Grandpont estate unsold but the liquidator, Walter Gray - himself a speculative builder and the developer of most of North Oxford - was able to gain possession of them in 1884. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Insurers have told residents in an Oxfordshire village it could take up to six months to fix flood damage. As we walked, I saw the impact of time, as their bodies struggled to walk down the steep banks alongside the simple dignity and determination with which they found their way. Recommended option. The surroundings of pumping stations were often landscaped to inspire ideas of cleanliness, purity and confidence in the public water supply, and what is now Hinksey Park began life as the landscaped grounds of Oxford's waterworks. Alluvium, with some Corallian Beds in the western This was simply a continuation of Marlborough Road, and by 1892 its separate name had been given up. 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