Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west Oxford. There are certain beliefs I carry that helped. But in 1856 the city waterworks were established at the end of Lake Street (now the South Oxford Community Centre), with grounds (now Hinksey Park) extending north as far as Eastwyke ditch. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: HT132. These swims were both ordinary and extraordinary. In 1936 the former filter beds of the waterworks were converted into swimming and paddling pools, known as the Jubilee Pools. 15) Hotels in South Hinksey. that it was the quarry from which the stones had been is a small bellcote containing one bell. The nave and chancel appear to have been built The Bishop of Oxford has been patron Subsequently William 'recognized his fault' and gave Owing to the insufficiency of the personal Description. In 1935 a remarkably ambitious plan was put forward to build indoor 'Gala Baths' on part of Hinksey Park, fronting on to the Abingdon Road and separate from the outdoor pools nearby. After the War, two of the pools were made into one large one.'. The waterworks can be seen on this plan of 1844, drawn up when wharves in the area were being sold at auction. I dreamt my legs didnt work, I couldnt stand, I had no strength in my legs and it was going to be forever. They splashed and dived, teaching their three young to fish. the parish, a short distance to the west of Hinksey Nervous, circulatory and digestive system had time to adjust to changing temperature and light, gradual loss of gravity and presence of water holding my skin together giving me the grace to fly and flow as fish. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The 15th-century tower arch is pointed and of two Hinksey is called a chapelry of Cumnor, and the (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]). Picturesque gravel pit, next to Hinksey park. (fn. This was a childhood swimming place for me. As if to seal the deal the swim friend I then met told me I must meet another swimmer swimming each day for December 2017. She began her journey around the winter solstice not the cosiest of times to start such an endeavour, but there was a reason she felt compelled to start it then. The roof-top balcony and caf can be seen in the background. When, however, the partition of the latter's estates South Hinksey is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the centre of Oxford. You will see us out and about on Thursdays and Saturdays, working to improve the path so that it can be enjoyed year-round. incumbent is referred to as chaplain and not as Oxford's first waterworks were established just south-east of Folly Bridge in 1694 and in the mid 18th century they were supplying water to about 200 houses in the city. chargeable upon lands allotted to the earl. 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. A34 Oxford Southern Bypass Road, South Hinksey - geograph.org.uk - 3295084.jpg 640 480; 369 KB. The new houses were occupied by families pursuing a wide variety of trades. (fn. 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. Madam's Lane became subsumed by future housing development, though it remained an open area between the gardens of the houses on the southern side of Vicarage Road and the northern side of Norreys Avenue, until an extension to Green Place was built over part of it in the 1970s. Since the 1930s they have been connected by the Southern By-Pass Road. These he later displayed at the Town Hall under a microscope. 65 to 85 Abingdon Road. After a reluctant start, the pace of house-building on Archer Street accelerated, encouraged no doubt by the gradual completion of the adjoining Grandpont estate and by the beginnings of development to the east: Chilswell Road, Edith Road and Newton Road were laid out in 1889 on a 7-acre piece of land known as Irish Mead, formerly owned by University College. Lake Street, Oxford, OX1 4RP | Tel: 01865 242666 | Email: enquiries@southoxford.org. The Southern By-Pass Road (part of the A34) passes through the parish. 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. Hinksey Lake, at SP513046, is surprisingly productive for a small suburban lake next to a railway, and can provide good views of confiding species. This Oxfordshire location article is a stub. Despite this, Alfred Boffin, an Oxford baker whose famous Boffin's Tea Room was at Carfax, developed a large area of new housing in Lake Street in the early 1880s. The parish includes the residential area of Hinksey Hill about 0.5 miles (800 m) south of the village. I moved away from the lilies to leave and their alarm calls rang out, direct and resonant. Date stone on the front of 2 Cobden Crescent. It was demolished in 1971 and houses on Shirelake Close now stand on the site. United Kingdom. Stream. Look out of the window and see nature, I am already there. The parish of South Hinksey covers 765 acres in the valley of the Isis. I yearned to learn with them. into decay. the Hinkseys as separate vills occurs in 1316, when Oxford, Parochial Charities. or bread. and two years later he acquired the manor of Cumnor. 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. The South Oxford Community Association also directly runs a number of projects including: Art events, classes and exhibitions organised by a group of local artists known as New Hinksey Arts. I breathed a silent thank you for the morning. road crosses the stream is the New The stench, too, in their houses arising from the flood is in some cases very offensive.' 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. Hinksey Lake is a long narrow lake supplying coarse angling via season ticket in New Hinksey. 8) and passed burial at the hands of the monks, and William 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). Image from Carole Newbigging, The Changing Faces of South Oxford and South Hinksey, Book 3 (Robert Boyd Publications, 2003). (fn. 10d. south-west, and is joined by a lane running south from the village. The dividends, A quiet, beautiful lake, near the city centre by the railway line, yet clean, full of fish, wildlife and water lilies and surrounded by trees. 2) taken to build the church of St. Peter in the East but only the nave has been completed. The scheme was approved by the City Council in 1937 but must have later fallen foul of spending cuts, as sadly it was never realised. by Houses were built with front gardens edged by dwarf walls topped by iron railings. What had been the cooling pond became a boating lake. (fn. Pages on this website do NOT confer a right to fish, nor to fish in a certain way. Rectory. 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. of the mills is ancient. Old Vicarage, Solth Hinksey, up to about 12 ft deep. Devil's Backbone, bridge and path. If when I get to the water I dont want to get in I dont have to (this has never happened yet). Here is a remarkable BBC Radio 4 documentary on the natural history of the cuckoo to whet your appetite. Sometimes poems came that seemed to have grown within me. Between Whitehouse Lane (now Whitehouse Road) and Hinksey Lake another strip of former railway land, just under two acres, was bought from the GWR in 1882 by James Archer, an Oxford carrier and coal merchant whose business was later called Archer Cowley & Co. Archer laid out sixty plots on the west side of a new street called Archer Street. At the west end Hinksey Hill Farm lies on Hinksey Hill, close to South Hinksey. [10], Laurence Binyon (18691943) wrote a poem entitled Ferry Hinksey.[11]. now a separate vicarage. since 1909. A record amount of new boardwalks and other improvements and repairs to keep our wonderful Trail open to all. Henry Hodge was reportedly a recent convert to the hobby of wild swimming. The draw I felt to these swimming spots I found myself revisiting was suddenly clear and I could see a daily practice was emerging of its own accord, and might offer time to witness and experience changes inside and external to me from a still point in the world. Hinksey Lake footbridge is located 1.6 miles (2575m) from Oxford Railway Station and 4.5 miles (7,242m) from Radley Railway Station. The large inlet pipe which fed water from Hinksey Lake into the swimming pools is still in place, just to the west of the Community Centre. Other plots were formed on the riverside meadows near Folly Bridge with frontages to roads named Brook Street and Buckingham Street (after former landowners) and Cobden Crescent (after Richard Cobden (1804-1865), the British Liberal politician whose defence of free trade was greatly admired by the Oxford Building & Investment Company). 4) The king gave him 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. ); Southengseye (xv cent.). It is in the The Weirs of Hinksey 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. is a vicarage annexed to South Hinksey. of Cumnor, (fn. 7) It The main pool would have been 120' (36.5m) long and 42' (12.8m) wide. of the 12th century by William de Seacourt, to third windows of the south wall are simple 13thcentury lancets and the second window is of two OUR STORY. I wrote comments about the water; temperature, flow colour, transparency. decorated Gothic style and consists of four bays with 16) South Hinksey It is first mentioned in the 10th century in the form Hengestesige, and probably means "stallion island". The Radburn family outside 50 Chilswell Road in c. 1905. My travelling companions were precious friends from a co-housing project there, committed to realising new visions of co-housing. Last January I raised money for Oxford Homeless Pathways with Dip a Day January, highlighting the impact of encountering cold, which tapped into deep felt concerns about the impact of relentless cold weather on those homeless through the winter and cuts to services. How to hold conscious intention with a yet unknown outcome? whose land in Bayworth (q.v) it had been attached. founded by will, 1609, is regulated A quiet, beautiful lake, near the city centre by the railway line, yet clean, full of fish, wildlife and water lilies and surrounded by trees. The conversion (except for the laying on of public services, which the Council paid for) was achieved entirely by voluntary labour. rent of 22s. 32) and is now The Community Centre is home for the thriving South Oxford Farmers Market each Sunday morning and has been home for Hinksey Sculling for many years with regular sessions held across the week for many age groups. the south-eastern part of the parish is covered with South Hinksey Lake Oxford Over the summer when possible I swam daily here. Rules can change, and fishing may become banned on waters.A small commission is made from the sale of products in the fishing tackle section. I felt contained in my own skin again, above my head the green tree canopy feeling strangely protective. The pools were unheated, but that didn't put children off. Here, Hinksey Park itself is an 11-acre park, including an open-air swimming pool, off Abingdon Road. Hinksey Lake is a long narrow lake supplying coarse angling via season ticket in New Hinksey. ); Southengseye (xv cent.). Vicarage Lane, School Place, Stewart Street and Green Place existed but had not yet been named; Summerfield was yet to be laid out. Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: OXFO 352.6. Daily practice was essential to remove the element of personal choice and whim, and offer continuity in meeting something beyond myself, and was endlessly fascinating. 11) cereals being the chief crops grown. Their back gardens look out over an area of open meadowland known as Dean's Ham or Archer Cowley's field. Recommended option. We are grateful to Oxfordshire County Council and local councillor Judy Roberts for their support in enabling us to buy specialist barrows which will enable us to move large amounts of material as we rebuild the path. erection of this new church accounts for the change 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. Stream, leaves the main stream at North Hinksey, Once the former railway line had been removed following the closure of Grandpont Station in 1872 the water company bought seven acres of land immediately north of the pumping station from University College (an area known as the Step Ground) and dug out a cooling pond (now the boating lake). That day I sat by the lake as if dreaming, insects hovering around me. In the churchyard, to the north of the nave, are When the Community Centre's lower hall was refurbished in 2016 it was named the Brenda Horwood Room. Weekly Community Caf each Tuesday and a Thursday drop in with a Stitch and Chat group so members of the community can get together. The footbridge links the village of South Hinksey with the South Oxford suburb of New Hinksey and provides a Public Right of Way (PRoW) between the residential areas (Figure 1.1). Soon after, RWM Gibbs, a popular Labour councillor for the South Ward (and later father-in-law of the prominent Oxford politician Olive Gibbs) persuaded the City Council to allow the redundant pumping station to be converted into a centre for recreational activities for local people. On the morning of January 23, the 31-year-old's body was. Swim River Thames Port Meadow, The Bend, Oxford. as New Hinksey, which sprang up in the 19th century between the Thames and the Hinksey Stream. The families hard work was realised when the golf course was opened in 1996, and the nature trail opened to the public. The place-name is of Old English origin. The Community Caf reopened on Tuesday 20th September. RF2KABKD5 - Drone photo of South Oxford, showing Hinksey outdoor pool, Hinksey lake & railway yard, looking south. (Click on image to close), The development of these local history pages was kindly sponsored by, Interesting aspects of South Oxford's history, Bruno Guastalla's beautiful photographs of Hinksey Pools. (In the medieval period this had been the site of a Hermitage or Bridgewrights' house, occupied by the bridge hermits who were responsible for the repair of the Grandpont causeway and South (Folly) Bridge. Learn more about how we use cookies in our Privacy Policy, and also find links to the privacy policy of Google and other data holders whose applications are present on or integrated with this website. Alluvium, with some Corallian Beds in the western The roof is A roof-top caf was added in 1960, though it was removed again in the late 1970s. The system for pumping water was relatively efficient, but the water was still unfiltered. The Centre has a number of rooms for hire, all reasonably priced for small or larger family occasions, group meetings, exercise and recreational classes, training and seminars. Both estates were intended for a superior class of artisans' dwellings. 29) In 1814 these were commuted for a payment In the second series of Ordnance Survey maps (1888-1914) the path is shown as a causeway. I have tried to put these into words here. tithes. A stroll along the nature trail offers stunning views down onto the city of Oxford and winds through woodland, reedland and fen. The Centre runs a regular bingo group each Wednesday. lights. 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