The share applicable to Oxford, Parochial Charities. After several months of hard work and persistence through terrible weather, our intrepid volunteers have completed a major renovation and improvement programme around the fallen tree just below the Upper Lake, informally known as Henrys Constriction. or bread. In 1985 Percy bought 310 acres overlooking the Dreaming Spires of Oxford from the Harcourt Estate. You can view and download our new illustrated Trail Map, completed by Mark Clay, artist, Trail volunteer and one of our CIC directors over at our Using The Trail page. Henry Greenaway's two fields between the Abingdon Road and the railway line were to become the site of New Hinksey. Swim River Thames Port Meadow, The Bend, Oxford. The Centre Administrator produces a quarterly Newsletter with event lists and news: The latest edition can be found here. This drawing covers part of the Thames Valley in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. that it was the quarry from which the stones had been The plan is oriented to the east, with a compass depicted at middle right. In May 1900 he sold the lots fronting Whitehouse Road to the builder Thomas Kingerlee for 875, and Kingerlee's firm built all the houses on that (southern) side of the road as a single terrace. Hinksey Lake footbridge is located 1.6 miles (2575m) from Oxford Railway Station and 4.5 miles (7,242m) from Radley Railway Station. parish is that leading from Oxford to 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. 2019, University of London. Eight homes were left under water and the supply was lost to 2,500 more when a 24in (60cm . 16) South Hinksey 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. Stream. estate, the sum of 90 only was paid in respect of The main pool would have been 120' (36.5m) long and 42' (12.8m) wide. Moreover, Oxford's firemen were regularly obliged to clean out blocked valves on their steam fire engines and one crew had recently removed two bushels of mussels. This lane vicar. 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. city of Oxford. The font is of the by The system for pumping water was relatively efficient, but the water was still unfiltered. 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. The Weirs of Hinksey 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. At this time the houses were still unnumbered, but it seems likely that this was his house and that it was built in 1849, making it one of the earliest houses in New Hinksey. Facing Hinksey Lake, it has views across the water and towards South Hinksey and Boars Hill. (fn. However, the ecclesiastical parish continues to include New Hinksey. His mother Ansfrida, a mistress of Henry I, received It was demolished in 1971 and houses on Shirelake Close now stand on the site. This website is a guide and cannot guarantee full coverage of venues, nor accuracy of the information provided. (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). In 1877 Charlotte Faulkener, by her will proved at Feel what you feel, I heard myself say. The committee included Mrs Horwood of Marlborough Road, whose 12-year-old daughter Brenda became treasurer. At the point where the Abingdon To all those lovely people in our community who have supported our work with personal donations: thank you! I felt contained in my own skin again, above my head the green tree canopy feeling strangely protective. Watch this space! Website design by JSummerton. The city has supplied itself 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. There is also a suburb called New Hinksey to the south of the town centre, which contains the Oxford City Council ward Hinksey Park. 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). Match fishing tackle: BROWSE NOW Details Information: Use our species pages to find the fisheries that suit you: CARP, PIKE, TENCH, TROUT, CATFISH, BARBEL. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) mentions Hinksey in his poems Thyrsis and The Scholar Gipsy. between his two daughters took place (fn. South Hinksey Lake Oxford Over the summer when possible I swam daily here. is a vicarage annexed to South Hinksey. (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]). the same descent, through the Norreys and Bertie 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. founded by will, 1609, is regulated (fn. 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). I stopped in a doorway overcome by and unsure of the question of my responsibility to fellow humans. It is first mentioned in the 10th century in the form Hengestesige, and probably means "stallion island". The original 1856 engine house faced Lake Street and the boiler house was immediately to the east of it. A wild swimmer drowned in Hinksey Lake, a coroner concluded. A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4. The waterworks pumping station, the lake, the cooling pond, the filter beds and the underground water storage tanks can be seen on this plan of the waterworks. families. 28), Before 1743 Montagu second Earl of Abingdon ); Southengseye (xv cent.). since 1909. 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. Abingdon. Lake Street, Oxford, OX1 4RP | Tel: 01865 242666 | Email: enquiries@southoxford.org. Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west Oxford. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: HT132. Memories of the seasons past, present and future live in each daily swim and approaching winter solstice this year. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Hinksey Park and the open-air swimming pool The city corporation waterworks opened at Lake Street in 1856. 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. with moulded capitals to the responds. of this parish. The pools were open from 1st May until 30th September, but in 1980 problems with the water supply and poor weather led to the season being restricted to only 20 weeks. parish from south-east to north-west, but there is no You can see parts of the plans here and here. The parish includes the residential area of Hinksey Hill about 0.5 miles (800m) south of the village. hollow-chamfered orders with square responds having short distance to the north-east called The railway line running north from Hinksey Lake, together with the station site and approach road, had all been raised above flood level upon embankments and the ground was therefore ideal for house-building. 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 growth of New Hinksey slowed after only a few years because of the gradual movement of railway activity from South to West Oxford. The park was laid out in the 1930s on the site of the former Victorian waterworks, and has a large lake, boating pond This had formed in 1850 when gravel was extracted from land to the west of the existing Great Western railway line, to provide ballast for a new extension of the railway from Oxford to Banbury. Two houses on Chilswell Road were designed by John Salter's cousin, the architect Stephen Salter. Now that the national lockdown has been eased, the trail volunteers are back out in force. South Oxford Community Association, Registered Charity Number 304351. The church of ST. LAWRENCE (fn. considerable importance. I also noticed I would write down any world events or current issues such as the plight of those homeless, refugees, terrorist events. 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. To make a donation, please visit this link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/HinkseyTrailVolunteers. Around 25 years ago I stumbled across morning pages; writing every morning as a stream of consciousness to rekindle creativity. 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. incumbent is referred to as chaplain and not as Old Vicarage, Solth Hinksey, Greenaway's land was bounded to the south-east by Madam's Lane, which went from the Abingdon Road, via a dog-leg, to the pathknown as the Devil's Backbone, which leads to the village of South Hinksey. I couldnt tell what was going on until I approached and saw two extended families of geese. A record amount of new boardwalks and other improvements and repairs to keep our wonderful Trail open to all. which till the middle of the 19th century at least (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. Car Hire. There were facilities for indoor games darts and table tennis a sewing room for dressmaking and other needlework, and a large hall which could be used for social events and as a gymnasium. Click here to see a video tour on our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcveyXAoRsP/, Oxford Accountants support Hinksey Heights Nature Trail. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: OXFO 352.6 MC3 packet 2, folder 43, 1. How? Look out of the window and see nature, I am already there. Alluvium, with some Corallian Beds in the western 14) and alienated to Sir John Williams. 15 ft. 9 in., nave 42 ft. 9 in. Image courtesy of Brasenose College, ref: D0530. Birds were above me; red kites, crows, gulls. up to about 12 ft deep. a plain round-headed north doorway with chamfered [10], Laurence Binyon (18691943) wrote a poem entitled Ferry Hinksey.[11]. The company laid out the Grandpont Estate and divided it into 231 plots. I used to hide from that aged five or six, but now Im so pleased to have music running through my veins. 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. (fn. the base and three steps of a stone cross. This was a childhood swimming place for me. The early history of SOUTH HINKSEY is identical with that of North The church of South Hinksey is This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help us improve and customize your experience. Johns history with the land up at Hinksey Heights goes back to 1954. The park is proud to fly its Green Flag Award. 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. I wrote comments about the water; temperature, flow colour, transparency. I have tried to put these into words here. station. Stream, leaves the main stream at North Hinksey, When the Community Centre's lower hall was refurbished in 2016 it was named the Brenda Horwood Room. The interior is very lofty and the aisles 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. Most had frontages to Western Road (the former station approach road, called Grandpont Road initially and then renamed after the Great Western Railway) or to Marlborough Road, which followed the course of the old railway line, from Whitehouse Lane to the river. chargeable upon lands allotted to the earl. Piano practice was my first daily practice. blocks and keystones, all of the 18th century. Image from Carole Newbigging, The Changing Faces of South Oxford and South Hinksey, Book 3 (Robert Boyd Publications, 2003). 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 Radburn family outside 50 Chilswell Road in c. 1905. 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. Local members vote to elect new Trustees at the Annual General Meeting held each summer. I like to remember the water inside my body and the pull of natural waters and the moon on the body. The first and Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: D263922a. by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, 5 February 1886, for the St. Aldate's, (fn. The tower is three stages high, with a plain moulded about 1636. 8d., are applied in the payment Henry Hodge was reportedly a recent convert to the hobby of wild swimming. up all claim. That river forms its eastern This was simply a continuation of Marlborough Road, and by 1892 its separate name had been given up. 'The old order changeth, yeilding place to the new': dons (old and new) on the High Street, 1882. Closed again Feb 2016 after tenants fell out and being marketed by Vale Brewery. The dividends, The longer I sat the more came, water boatman surfed on water meniscus, damsel flies darted, and dragon flies landed on my knees. Geography [ edit] Its incredible to think that he has flown all the way to from the Congo to visit us this summer. The new works were powered initially by a waterwheel, and a second wheel was added in 1849. To house the enormous pumps the buildings required height and, for the beam engine, a strong supporting wall. He was thirteen when he first visited his school friend Addy, whose father Percy Gresswell was a tenant farmer at Hinksey Hill Farm. bells. 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. Every morning is a new day and the world is a new place, Going to the riverbank or the lake or the sea will always change me, Gratitude to be able to go out into nature, Gratitude for the choice to swim and the freedom and safety to move around freely, Gratitude for precious moments in solitude in nature, Amazement my body carries me through my life and it would like the mind to be open and happy, Take one step at a time and dont think ahead, be in the present moment, Be aware and present, feel the air on the surfaces of the body, the temperature of the air, the breezes on the skin, the feet on the ground, feel the action of gravity on the body and the work you are doing to maintain position, posture and movement of body, Breathe, feel each breath of the day, be aware and present. which forms New Hinksey are the reservoirs and The new suburb was named New Hinksey after the nearby villages of North and South Hinksey; 'Hinksey' is made up of the Old English elements 'hengest' meaning 'horse' and 'eg' ['ey' in modern spellings] meaning island or area of slightly higher ground above flood level. 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