The swimming pools had no fence around them, and it was free to swim there. The parish of South Hinksey covers 765 acres in New Hinksey also has a lights. 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. founded by will, 1609, is regulated South Hinksey is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the centre of Oxford. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcveyXAoRsP/. 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. (fn. (fn. (fn. 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. It dawned on me I was another perceived danger, the crows hovering around the goslings. A wild swimmer drowned in Hinksey Lake, a coroner concluded. The city's essentially medieval character was altered forever, and the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins spoke for many when he wrote disparagingly of the development of Oxford's 'base and brickish skirt'. families. As the houses were built, so were shops and pubs, St Matthew's church, and Oxford's first football ground. Thereafter houses appeared in blocks dotted along either side. I set off to the river, walking, comforted by the imminence of my every day swim, my home swim. Line 300 bus. After Percy passed away, the family began plans to use the land as a golf course and nature park. To all those lovely people in our community who have supported our work with personal donations: thank you! 1889 included for civil purposes in the They were bought up by speculative builders, usually in blocks. 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. surplus income was to be distributed in fuel, clothing, (Click image to close), The development of these local history pages was kindly sponsored by, Great Western Railway built the first railway line to Oxford, two large fields west of the Abingdon Road and half a mile south of Folly Bridge, the Berkshire House and the New Hinksey Inn, Great Western Railway's Grandpont station, the Oxford boatbuilder based at Folly Bridge, meaning of street names in Grandpont and South Oxford, Interesting aspects of South Oxford's history. We hope her thoughts and words may inspire some of you to embark on a dip a day for 2018. west tower was added in the following century, and After a recent public appeal, we are delighted to have the generous pro bono support of Botley-based accountants Ridgefield Consulting. The longer I sat the more came, water boatman surfed on water meniscus, damsel flies darted, and dragon flies landed on my knees. Development by Steve Perry Creative. Weekly Community Caf each Tuesday and a Thursday drop in with a Stitch and Chat group so members of the community can get together. hollow-chamfered orders with square responds having Here he built six- and seven-roomed artisan houses of which ten fronted the existing street and the rest a new cul-de-sac which he called Summerfield. (fn. Skyscanner. The Duke of Monmouth, 260 Abingdon Rd, Oxford OX1 4TA. is given to a poor boy or to a poor widow with By March 1881, 13 houses on Marlborough Road were occupied and 24 more were in the process of being built. amounting to 2 6s. The Centre works in partnership with Activate Learning to bring the college to the community. up all claim. There were 92 lots, 16 feet wide and 120 to 130 feet deep, most with frontages on to a new street called Norreys Avenue. 13th-century chancel arch is low, narrow, and pointed, village of South Hinksey, and New Hinksey residents attended St Laurence's church in South Hinksey by crossing Hinksey Lake and the railway tracks on the path still known as the Devil's Backbone. About a quarter of the land in this parish is under Therefore a modest level of building activity continued in the 1850s and 1860s, and by 1871 New Hinksey contained 159 houses and a population of 722. It was known as The Grandpont Express. residue in the distribution of coal among all the poor under that of St. Lawrence. short distance to the north-east called The railway brought with it a demand for cheap local housing for railway employees. Hinksey Lake. The village of South Hinksey is in the centre of How to make any planning relevant and be mindful of my safety whilst opening space for any previously un-encountered experience? one time a mill in South Hinksey of 3) After the death modern lancet lights with ancient external jambs. (Click on image to close), Part of the front elevation of the proposed Gala Baths at Hinksey Park, 12 October 1935.Reproduced by kind permission of Oxford City Council, ref: 15516. incumbent is referred to as chaplain and not as New Hinksey on the Ordnance Survey map of 1878, an 'island' suburb surrounded by open fields. Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west Oxford. 22) South Hinksey is 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. Oxford, Parochial Charities. 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. [9] He found the path muddy and organized a party of undergraduates to improve the roadway in the Hinksey area. intersecting rivulets and is liable to floods. The 15th-century tower arch is pointed and of two a window was inserted in the north of the nave, the of the 12th century by William de Seacourt, to the parish, a short distance to the west of Hinksey manors from Richard Wenman and his wife Isabel, Insurers have told residents in an Oxfordshire village it could take up to six months to fix flood damage. 13) and was afterwards granted with North Hinksey A number of martial arts groups run at the Centre for children and adults as well as several yoga groups. parish from south-east to north-west, but there is no Hotels. The present owner of the estate is the Earl of 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. 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. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: HT132. consols with the official trustees. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}5144N 116W / 51.733N 1.267W / 51.733; -1.267. O. W. Craven presented in Wootton, another chapelry of Cumnor, was Our resident wildlife photographer, Lucie Johnson, heard him yesterday. Instead they decided to hold their own inquiry which was, ironically, delayed by another outbreak of cholera in 1849. edges, perhaps of the 13th century. estate, the sum of 90 only was paid in respect of Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west Oxford. in 1712 as resembling 'military fortifications.' This Oxfordshire location article is a stub. I like to remember the water inside my body and the pull of natural waters and the moon on the body. Hence houses were built in groups, mostly of two, three or four, but sometimes of up to eight, of the same design. I spread out my arms and legs, could I fly? (The bridge is to the left of the image). the middle of the 18th century. parish is that leading from Oxford to These enormous engines were powered by steam, and coal was brought to the works daily by cart. The parish was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire . Last year, OSS member Helen Edwards decided to embark on a dip day for a whole year. (fn. followed the descent of the manor, (fn. to the base, which is moulded and rests on a square up to about 12 ft deep. 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.' [3], Hinxey Hall was located in Oxford during the 14th to 16th centuries. The registers previous to 1812 are as follows: Click here to see a video tour on our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcveyXAoRsP/, Oxford Accountants support Hinksey Heights Nature Trail. (fn. Oxford, UK October 2022 Oxford, UK October 2022 RM 2EBR0KM - St Lawrences Church North Hinksey chancel south window. 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. Hinksey (q.v.). (Click on image to close), Plan of Grandpont Villas, built c. 1859 on the eastern side of Abingdon Road, from the 'Vellum Book' Schedule of the property of the city of Oxford, The Oxfordshire History Centre. ); Southengseye (xv cent.). Hinksey Hill Farm lies on Hinksey Hill, close to South Hinksey. Two old boys, who were also the lifeguards, used to empty and scrub all around the pools with brooms. The plan is oriented to the east, with a compass depicted at middle right. city of Oxford. Pages on this website do NOT confer a right to fish, nor to fish in a certain way. came into existence; the present works were constructed in 1854, and have since been largely extended. 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. in 1401 (fn. The Weirs of Hinksey belonged to Robert Hethe, (fn. 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. 1888 on a site given by the Earl of Abingdon and Both estates were intended for a superior class of artisans' dwellings. parapet, and a square turret staircase rising to the base There are several old quarries in the western part 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. road crosses the stream is the New This was simply a continuation of Marlborough Road, and by 1892 its separate name had been given up. 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). 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. Adjacent to that was the works manager's house (now demolished). We gratefully acknowledge the support of TOE, the Trust for Oxfordshires Environment, who have made a generous grant to make this possible. 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. I breathed a silent thank you for the morning. The Radburn family outside 50 Chilswell Road in c. 1905. (fn. It was known There is seating indoors or in the yard. On the eastern side of Abingdon Road, where most of the land was owned by University College and Brasenose College, regular flooding prevented development and there were few buildings other than those of Eastwyke Farm and the nearby toll house. were in existence in 1544, when they 13 Jan 2023 - 14 Jan 2023. Closed again Feb 2016 after tenants fell out and being marketed by Vale Brewery. 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. Hinksey Mill. The Centre runs a regular bingo group each Wednesday. For more tips on swimming year round, head to 6 tips for Cold Water Swimming. 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). 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. What a lot we have achieved in 2022! Swim River Thames Port Meadow, The Bend, Oxford. (fn. 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. 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. Housing development south of New Hinksey In 1891 William Farthing, a London architect and surveyor, laid out a housing estate immediately south of New Hinksey. His mother Ansfrida, a mistress of Henry I, received 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. Geese hissed in vain, the gosling helpless, no way of loosening the grip, just calling. The Owing to the insufficiency of the personal There were 92 lots, 16 feet wide and 120 to 130 feet deep, most with frontages on to a new street called Norreys Avenue. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Always check you can fish lawfully before starting. 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. Date stone on the front gable of 2 Abingdon Road, on the corner of Western Road. Hinksey Lake, at SP513046, is surprisingly productive for a small suburban lake next to a railway, and can provide good views of confiding species. I had a strong memory, a teenager, scared to trust my own path. Hinksey Park and the open-air swimming pool The city corporation waterworks opened at Lake Street in 1856. 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. It looks out across the popular Hinksey Park. The Nature Reserve, covering more than 12 hectares, is home to diverse wildlife, including robins, magpies, cuckoos, green woodpeckers, bullfinches, deer and red kites. Small terraced cottages were quickly built and by 1851 New Hinksey housed a total of 144 people. between his two daughters took place (fn. On reaching the old rope swing I drew a breath taking in the unbelievable beauty. South Hinksey is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile (1.6km) south of the centre of Oxford. is of two lights under a square head, and below it is 1907 for the Earl of Abingdon, who is a Roman The full force of mountain water on skin came with a smell like forever, and inner peace began glowing in my heart. We were all together for a moment, Miles like a water baby, my mother a seal in a full wet suit at 76, my father near her to help, Jos still presence glowed amongst the trees. The parish includes the residential area of Hinksey Hill about 0.5 miles (800m) south of the village. To the north of the interchange between the A34 and the A423. 4) The king gave him The alkaline fen at Hinksey Heights is one of the few existing examples of this rare habitat in Oxfordshire. chamfered edges. South Oxford Community Association, Registered Charity Number 304351. The first and Recent conservation projects at the Nature Park have seen degraded areas of the alkaline valley fen restored by clearing out overgrown willows and reeds which were drying out the land. When the Community Centre's lower hall was refurbished in 2016 it was named the Brenda Horwood Room. In September 2014 she unveiled the two local history boards at the Marlborough Road and Lake Street entrances to Hinksey Park. It is sometimes called 'the local list' and gives buildings a degree of extra protection in planning terms should proposals be put forward to radically alter or demolish them. The Lake Street waterworks ceased operation in 1934 because new waterworks had been built at Swinford. Geography [ edit] 2s. As of summer 2020, there is a volunteer-led effort at the nature trail to repair parts of the boardwalk which have become damaged due to age and heavy usage. (fn. I saw crows, wings flapping wildly and people near by. The conversion (except for the laying on of public services, which the Council paid for) was achieved entirely by voluntary labour. Look out of the window and see nature, I am already there. In the south wall of the nave, towards the Here is a remarkable BBC Radio 4 documentary on the natural history of the cuckoo to whet your appetite. Here, Hinksey Park itself is an 11-acre park, including an open-air swimming pool, off Abingdon Road. A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4. The majority of the dwellings were built up to the pavement edge, with no front gardens, as was characteristic of early and mid 19th-century development in other suburbs like Jericho and St Ebbe's. Conditions improved when main drainage was extended to the suburb in 1875, though flooding was still a regular problem, as in other low-lying areas of the city. porch. The roof is the base and three steps of a stone cross. 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