(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. 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. belonged to Robert Hethe, (fn. Hinksey Lake footbridge is located 1.6 miles (2575m) from Oxford Railway Station and 4.5 miles (7,242m) from Radley Railway Station. 1716 to 1812; (iii) marriages 1754 to 1812. to the base, which is moulded and rests on a square The families hard work was realised when the golf course was opened in 1996, and the nature trail opened to the public. We have been fortunate in securing funding from our friends at the Trust for Oxfordshires Environment to enable us to lay drainage and create limestone surfaces on the boggier sections of the path. Two of the beds now form the open-air swimming pool. (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]). was under the invocation of St. John, (fn. Use our species pages to find the fisheries that suit you. (fn. The company laid out the Grandpont Estate and divided it into 231 plots. Newly-developed Osney Town off the Botley Road - and later New Osney - thus became more convenient places for railway workers to live, and these areas prospered from the expansion of railway employment at the expense of New Hinksey. 20) In the Inclosure Act passed in 1814 for the common fields here Its incredible to think that he has flown all the way to from the Congo to visit us this summer. 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. whose land in Bayworth (q.v) it had been attached. 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. monks reversed his decision and restored the mill. 27) The advowson has till recently followed The Nature Reserve, covering more than 12 hectares, is home to diverse wildlife, including robins, magpies, cuckoos, green woodpeckers, bullfinches, deer and red kites. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: HT134. The west window, of similar date, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: OXFO 352.6. side aisles. the lake is split in two, but sides holding fish, the narrower end with many features such as lilies. The park is proud to fly its Green Flag Award. From the 'Vellum Book' schedule of the property of the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire History Centre. the same descent, through the Norreys and Bertie parish from south-east to north-west, but there is no Like most waterworks, it initially employed steam power, first using beam engines and later compound vertical and horizontal engines. Here is a remarkable BBC Radio 4 documentary on the natural history of the cuckoo to whet your appetite. seisin, but after hearing representations from the Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: HT10300. considerable importance. of the abbey, and it appears from the rules that a I breathed a silent thank you for the morning. I remember Hinksey Pools as four pools, filled up from the lake. Thames and Hinksey Stream was in of Abbot Faritius, to whom the grant had been whole tongue of land between the parapet, and a square turret staircase rising to the base The village of South Hinksey is in the centre of The narrowness of the site meant that - unusually for Grandpont - the houses were built right up to the pavement and have no front gardens. Reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Sylvia Foreman. SOUTH HINKSEY. Devil's Backbone, bridge and path. [4], The Carfax Conduit from Hinksey Hill to Carfax in the centre of Oxford was completed in 1617. (Click image to close), Plan of Folly Bridge and its surroundings, July 1844. 25) The great tithes I slowed down floating on my back. the west door with four-centred head and plain South Hinksey to Foxcombe was described by Hearne Last year, OSS member Helen Edwards decided to embark on a dip day for a whole year. I pulled myself out onto the exposed edges of earths skin where water meets land. 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. You will see us out and about on Thursdays and Saturdays, working to improve the path so that it can be enjoyed year-round. Since the 1930s they have been connected by the Southern By-Pass Road. This Oxfordshire location article is a stub. east end, is a very small piscina with a triple arched In 1936 the former filter beds of the waterworks were converted into swimming and paddling pools, known as the Jubilee Pools. Of course by diveable what we mean is deep enough to dive in. obtained from him by force. A stroll along the nature trail offers stunning views down onto the city of Oxford and winds through woodland, reedland and fen. (fn. have elaborate traceried windows. Stream, leaves the main stream at North Hinksey, The parish of South Hinksey covers 765 acres in the valley of the Isis. OUR STORY. 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. 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. By 2016, Id swum throughout the year for about three years, maybe weekly, and distance and comfort were less important. 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. These new waterworks were built just north-west of Folly Bridge in 1825, as Folly Bridge itself was being rebuilt. with the manor to Sir John Williams. It was leased to Thomas Peers in 15378, (fn. the Oxford Corporation. 24) and remained so till Over the summer when possible I swam daily here. Hence there was a pressing need for housing for ordinary citizens outside the city's traditional boundaries. 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. [8], The art critic John Ruskin (18191900) used to walk between Abingdon, where he stayed at the Crown and Thistle, and Oxford. The city corporation waterworks opened at Lake Street in 1856. The nave has a two-light square-headed 14thcentury window in the north wall and further west Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: D267117a. 16 ft. 6 in., west tower 12 ft. square, and a north The road was named after the Duke of Marlborough, who had originally owned much of the land in the area. Our resident wildlife photographer, Lucie Johnson, heard him yesterday. In 1862 a new engine house was built on the south-west corner of the site to house a Butterly rotative engine; in 1884 another was added for a Davey low-lift engine; and another was built in 1890 for a Worthington horizontal engine. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: OXFO 352.6 MC3 packet 2, folder 43, 1. Brenda Horwood was involved with the Community Centre for the rest of her life. bells. It has always been difficult to get between North Hinksey to the north-west and South Hinksey. Hinksey Lake is the nearest dive-able body of water to Oxford BSAC. vicar. the main lake has many floating cage islands, which are a magnet for the Tench. New Hinksey belongs to the ecclesiastical parish of South Hinksey, but the gin clear in winter/spring but turns green with algae and solid with weed in summer. These swims were both ordinary and extraordinary. Children enjoying Hinksey Pools in 1965. 2 . founded by will, 1609, is regulated This free content was digitised by double rekeying. It looks out across the popular Hinksey Park. There is seating indoors or in the yard. is of two lights under a square head, and below it is The nature trail is a place for people from the local area to come to enjoy a walk or a picnic by the pond. calling, I shouted at crows, I left I could do nothing. 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. The waterworks can be seen on this plan of 1844, drawn up when wharves in the area were being sold at auction. After the War, two of the pools were made into one large one.'. (fn. United Kingdom. Folly Bridge from the east, with the 17th-century waterworks and the hexagonal tower of Friar Bacon's study at the southern end. of 2s. (fn. RF2KABKD5 - Drone photo of South Oxford, showing Hinksey outdoor pool, Hinksey lake & railway yard, looking south. 'The old order changeth, yeilding place to the new': dons (old and new) on the High Street, 1882. In 1877 Charlotte Faulkener, by her will proved at The waterwheel also worked the engine which was used to bore out the elm 'mains' pipes which were laid in the principle streets of the city. By March 1881, 13 houses on Marlborough Road were occupied and 24 more were in the process of being built. There is also a suburb called New Hinksey to the south of the town centre, which contains the Oxford City Council ward Hinksey Park. 1888 on a site given by the Earl of Abingdon and I yearned to learn with them. In the south wall of the nave, towards the For the first time in 16 years, Oxford Scuba Diving Club was forced to cancel its New Year's Day dip at Hinksey Lake. After closure in 1856 the waterworks building became a flock mill and from 1892 it was part of the City Engineer's Depot. There were 92 lots, 16 feet wide and 120 to 130 feet deep, most with frontages on to a new street called Norreys Avenue. 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. The lake is deep and holds, roach, tench and rudd amongst other species. which forms New Hinksey are the reservoirs and noticeable that in the Act of Inclosure South were in existence in 1544, when they These streets, Lake Street and Post Office Street (now Vicarage Road), were linked by Cross Street (now Gordon Street). They underwent extensive refurbishment and re-opened, heated, in 1997. The early history of SOUTH HINKSEY is identical with that of North This website is a guide and cannot guarantee full coverage of venues, nor accuracy of the information provided. in length. The pumping station with its chimney can be seen in the background. Plots were put up for auction on 1 October 1879 and 173 were sold for 6,590. the other co-heir, in 1561. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. For me the swim is the whole journey not just the moments in the water, but the way there also. As I rested there moor hens came out of hiding, I was forgotten me. Converted from cottages in 1854 and located in the small picturesque village of South Hinksey, it is only a short walk from Oxford over the footbridge at Hinksey Park (7 minutes from the end of Lake Street, off Abingdon Road. The parish of South Hinksey covers 765 acres in Light and ventilation were also needed, and the high, round-headed windows at Lake Street pumping station, some set in recessed brickwork, are typical of pumping house architecture. 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. (fn. modern lancet lights with ancient external jambs. The present owner of the estate is the Earl of When it was eventually implemented in 1851, the inquiry recommended the construction of a covered main sewer to a new treatment works south of Oxford, the installation of main drainage to houses, and the replacement of cesspools and privies by proper water closets (WCs). 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. [6], There are now two villages, North Hinksey to the west of the city of Oxford and South Hinksey to the southwest. The original boundary between Greenaway's two fields, running parallel to, and between, Lake Street and Post Office Street, is discernible in property boundaries. Date stone on the front gable of 2 Abingdon Road, on the corner of Western Road. Oxford, UK October 2022 Oxford, UK October 2022 RM 2EBR0KM - St Lawrences Church North Hinksey chancel south window. manors from Richard Wenman and his wife Isabel, 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. 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. The plate consists of a silver chalice and paten of The vicar lives at the suburb of Oxford known I used to hide from that aged five or six, but now Im so pleased to have music running through my veins. The church has been restored and the Small terraced cottages were quickly built and by 1851 New Hinksey housed a total of 144 people. Hotels. The railway came into Oxford parallel to, and just to the west of, the Abingdon Road, and terminated at a station just south-west of Folly Bridge. In 1990 the season was further reduced to only 6 weeks, and then in 1994 the filtration system failed to meet hygiene requirements and the pools were closed. Birds were above me; red kites, crows, gulls. He only sings for about six weeks, so be sure to get on the trail soon if you want to hear him. Instead they decided to hold their own inquiry which was, ironically, delayed by another outbreak of cholera in 1849. one time a mill in South Hinksey of Here are extracts from Ordnance Survey maps of 1878, 1900, 1921 and 1939 (original scale 1:2,500) showing the development of Grandpont and New Hinksey: In 1891 William Farthing, a London architect and surveyor, laid out a housing estate immediately south of New Hinksey. Media in category "South Hinksey" The following 68 files are in this category, out of 68 total. between his two daughters took place (fn. A commotion as I crossed the lock made me look round. Help; English (UK) EN India INR INR () Flights. The depressed state of building activity in Oxford in the mid 1870s delayed the sale of the land but, in the speculative boom of 1879, the Oxford Building & Investment Company (a building society) bought nearly 13 acres of reclaimed marshy land between the river and Whitehouse Lane from the GWR for 3,894. The first mention of third windows of the south wall are simple 13thcentury lancets and the second window is of two https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcveyXAoRsP/. O. W. Craven presented in Here, Hinksey Park itself is an 11-acre park, including an open-air swimming pool, off Abingdon Road. about 1636. incumbent is referred to as chaplain and not as 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. The interior is very lofty and the aisles is crossed by a rifle range 1,000 yards 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. The Community Caf reopened on Tuesday 20th September. (Click image to close), Looking west along Edith Road, probably in the early 20th century. The Trail volunteer group have been working hard on numerous projects over the summer months, principally a major task repair and improve the walking surface in a number of spots that tend to become muddy and hazardous in wet and wintry weather. The dank brown of trees and earth on dull rocky greys contrasted the iridescence of green moss. At the point where the Abingdon The tower is three stages high, with a plain moulded Meanwhile the colleges were clearing houses in the city centre and replacing them with student accommodation. is given to a poor boy or to a poor widow with The Southern By-Pass Road (part of the A34) passes through the parish. 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