Lake Street, Oxford, OX1 4RP | Tel: 01865 242666 | Email: enquiries@southoxford.org. The original 1856 engine house faced Lake Street and the boiler house was immediately to the east of it. 8) and passed 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. 31). Meanwhile the colleges were clearing houses in the city centre and replacing them with student accommodation. [3] Hinksey Stream runs past the west of Oxford, a branch of the River Thames. The project to build a boardwalk through the reserve began in 2003, carried out by students from Peers School (now Oxford Academy), which improved access through marshy areas of the reserve. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: D267117a. That day I sat by the lake as if dreaming, insects hovering around me. The Southern By-Pass Road (part of the A34) passes through the parish. A new pumping station (now the South Oxford Community Centre) was built at the western end of the road leading to the lake - Lake Street - and it opened in 1856. South Hinksey. one time a mill in South Hinksey of The Duke of Monmouth, 260 Abingdon Rd, Oxford OX1 4TA. Moreover, building plots were becoming available in other outlying parts of the city - notably in East Oxford - and potential residents and hence speculative builders were probably put off New Hinksey by the regular flooding and primitive sanitary arrangements. The causeway over the flooded fields on which the scholar is spotted here is the path called the Devil's Backbone, that leads westwards from New Hinksey over Hinksey stream to the meadows and South Hinksey beyond. erection of this new church accounts for the change Building was slow to begin however, and the first house plans were not submitted to the City Engineer for approval until March 1887. South Oxford Community Centre occupies a large Victorian building in Lake Street, off the Abingdon Road, about one mile from Oxford city centre. boundary, and a branch of it, known as Hinksey Part of the plan of the proposed Gala Baths at Hinksey Park, 7 October 1935.Reproduced by kind permission of Oxford City Council, ref: 15516. consols with the official trustees. 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). parish is that leading from Oxford to 28), Before 1743 Montagu second Earl of Abingdon The parish was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire . In 1844 the Great Western Railway built the first railway line to Oxford, linking the city to the main London to Bristol line at Didcot. as New Hinksey, which sprang up in the 19th century between the Thames and the Hinksey Stream. The early history of SOUTH HINKSEY is identical with that of North 13 Jan 2023 - 14 Jan 2023. now a separate vicarage. endowed by the Earl of Abingdon in the same way, Allaboutangling.net: built by anglers for anglers. west tower was added in the following century, and tithes. is crossed by a rifle range 1,000 yards In 1877 college fellows were allowed to marry and although a lot of them moved to the newly-developing middle-class suburb of North Oxford, the presence of their wives and families stimulated demand for goods and services throughout the city. Most of the 114 lots were on a new street called Sunningwell Road. Image The Oxfordshire County Council, the Oxfordshire History Centre, ref D273566a (Click image to close), Looking along Lake Street towards the Abingdon Road during flooding in 1890. The rest of the grounds were opened to the public in the 1920s and when the waterworks closed in 1934 they were given to the city to form a public park, sometimes known as Jubilee Park, because it opened in the year of George V's silver jubilee. South Hinksey is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile (1.6km) south of the centre of Oxford. the parish, a short distance to the west of Hinksey A number of martial arts groups run at the Centre for children and adults as well as several yoga groups. 17) After Percy passed away, the family began plans to use the land as a golf course and nature park. The main pool would have been 120' (36.5m) long and 42' (12.8m) wide. 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. Sometimes poems came that seemed to have grown within me. Owing to the insufficiency of the personal as Langford Mill, 'near Oxford Bridge,' and was I started choosing five photos from each day and saved them, neatly organised on my laptop. There are certain beliefs I carry that helped. 15 ft. 9 in., nave 42 ft. 9 in. Addy and John became life-long friends, and John later married Addys sister Judy. The church has been restored and the The physician Henry Acland's pioneering work on the epidemiology of the outbreaks showed that the mortality rate, which was particularly high in the crowded working-class parishes of St Aldates, St Clement's, St Thomas's and St Ebbe's, was related to poor housing and to lack of proper drainage and sanitation. Henry Greenaway's two fields between the Abingdon Road and the railway line were to become the site of New Hinksey. After the War, two of the pools were made into one large one.'. Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west Oxford. Here, Hinksey Park itself is an 11-acre park, including an open-air swimming pool, off Abingdon Road. It looks out across the popular Hinksey Park. 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. The line terminated with a station just to the south-west of Folly Bridge. The 15th-century tower arch is pointed and of two The following year, land to the south of Norreys Avenue was laid out for Charles Gillman, an Oxford photographer and printseller (of Gillman & Soame) by the Oxford surveyors Galpin & Son. 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. This means we can now close the temporary path that operated as a diversion while we undertook this work. Subsequently William 'recognized his fault' and gave The share applicable to Moreover, the proximity of Grandpont to the city centre made it a potentially convenient place of residence for 'labourers, college servants and a few very small tradespeople and shopkeepers.' This website is a guide and cannot guarantee full coverage of venues, nor accuracy of the information provided. moulded capitals. This in turn produced an expansion in demand for goods and services which provided more employment for working people, and as a result there was further growth in Oxford's population and an increase in the need for housing. The lake is deep and holds, roach, tench and rudd amongst other species. 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). This brought back memories of that daily practice. The Jarvis family, for example, built at least 35 houses on Marlborough Road, and the Phipps family at least 26. I spread out my arms and legs, could I fly? I decided to swim every day today. Later individual changing huts were added, and above them was a balcony. The original boundary between Greenaway's two fields, running parallel to, and between, Lake Street and Post Office Street, is discernible in property boundaries. with the manor to Sir John Williams. Thomas Fawkner's charity, Hinksey Stream runs past the west of Oxford, a branch of the River Thames. The music of a buskers song reached me and looking up I saw the trees around leading me to the meadows. In the south wall of the nave, towards the Odd irrational thoughts and perceptions would be dotted around on the pages, as if food for future trains of thought, and doodles and images would appear, which then sometimes turned into paintings. 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. New Hinksey belongs to the ecclesiastical parish of South Hinksey, but the The vicar lives at the suburb of Oxford known Hence houses were built in groups, mostly of two, three or four, but sometimes of up to eight, of the same design. was under the invocation of St. John, (fn. Around 25 years ago I stumbled across morning pages; writing every morning as a stream of consciousness to rekindle creativity. The Hinksey Heights Nature Trail is a privately-owned permissive path connecting with Chilswell Valley and Harcourt Hill and leading to other famous local walks. a window was inserted in the north of the nave, the Last year, OSS member Helen Edwards decided to embark on a dip day for a whole year. by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, 5 February 1886, for the St. Aldate's, parish from south-east to north-west, but there is no If when I get to the water I dont want to get in I dont have to (this has never happened yet). The nave and chancel appear to have been built The committee included Mrs Horwood of Marlborough Road, whose 12-year-old daughter Brenda became treasurer. to George Owen (fn. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. the east, north and south walls, with external impost So near yet so wild. 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. 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). In 1875 some of the affected families in New Hinksey were said to be 'in a wretched condition, being confined to their upper rooms, with no firing, very little clothing and many with scarcely any food to eat. 13th-century chancel arch is low, narrow, and pointed, A commotion as I crossed the lock made me look round. The Piano practice was my first daily practice. Lake at South Hinksey - geograph.org.uk - 1216985.jpg 640 427; 50 KB. (fn. were in existence in 1544, when they Watch this space! According to the census, a man called Robert Palmer lived on this stretch of the the Abingdon Road with his family from at least 1851 until 1871; he was a brick maker. Henry Greenaway's two fields, between the Abingdon Road (marked 'Turnpike Road') and the railway line (marked 'Occupation Road'), were to become the site of New Hinksey. Use our species pages to find the fisheries that suit you. Google Adsense runs on our website; your personal data will be used for personalisation of ads and cookies may be used for personalised and non-personalised advertising. It has always been difficult to get between North Hinksey to the north-west and South Hinksey. Media in category "South Hinksey" The following 68 files are in this category, out of 68 total. Johns history with the land up at Hinksey Heights goes back to 1954. 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). Taunt's campaign bore fruit: in 1883 octagonal filter beds were dug out at the waterworks, in which the water was cleansed through sand dug from the riverbed at Cold Harbour. complained to the king that the mill had been Please make a donation to our Winter 2022Appeal if you can. We also extend our grateful thanks to North Hinksey Parish Council for their additional support for equipment, which is greatly appreciated. It dawned on me I was another perceived danger, the crows hovering around the goslings. belonged to Robert Hethe, (fn. calling, I shouted at crows, I left I could do nothing. I appreciated every moment and marvelled how much summer there is still in the winter waters, in colours, smells and sounds. The roof-top balcony and caf can be seen in the background. By the following year he had finished a number of houses for letting purposes. Crown. 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. The families hard work was realised when the golf course was opened in 1996, and the nature trail opened to the public. is a small bellcote containing one bell. Over the summer when possible I swam daily here. The Nature Reserve, covering more than 12 hectares, is home to diverse wildlife, including robins, magpies, cuckoos, green woodpeckers, bullfinches, deer and red kites. Two of the pools were made into one large one. ' Hinksey & quot ; the year. 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