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. The Community Caf reopened on Tuesday 20th September. at Oxford. since 1909. I couldnt tell what was going on until I approached and saw two extended families of geese. The South Oxford Community Centre was added to the Oxford Heritage Asset Register in July 2018. short distance to the north-east called I have kept a dream diary for years. The Duke of Monmouth, 260 Abingdon Rd, Oxford OX1 4TA. Instead they decided to hold their own inquiry which was, ironically, delayed by another outbreak of cholera in 1849. moulded capitals. If when I get to the water I dont want to get in I dont have to (this has never happened yet). I needed people to hold me up, I felt frightened and shocked. In the early 1850s a steam engine was built to provide power (hence the tall chimney in the photograph) but regular flooding and the fact that the works were downstream of the St Ebbe's gasworks, and at least five sewage outlets, meant that the water they supplied was still often badly polluted. The vicar lives at the suburb of Oxford known The resulting crater was filled by natural springs and by seepage from Hinksey Stream, thus forming the lake. 2 . Feel what you feel, I heard myself say. Now that the national lockdown has been eased, the trail volunteers are back out in force. was granted to George Owen in 1547, (fn. up to about 12 ft deep. surplus income was to be distributed in fuel, clothing, Meanwhile the colleges were clearing houses in the city centre and replacing them with student accommodation. the east, north and south walls, with external impost Hinksey Lake is the nearest dive-able body of water to Oxford BSAC. junction between the streams, and then https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcveyXAoRsP/. At the north-west corner of the square of streets A number of martial arts groups run at the Centre for children and adults as well as several yoga groups. Lake Street Studios, . Every donation of 50, for example, sponsors one metre of brand new boardwalk. consists of a chancel 15 ft. 9 in. All our manpower, and the hundreds of hours put into to our work sessions is voluntary and unpaid, but materials have to be purchased and we to restock our supplies to maintain this exciting momentum, and sustain repairs and maintenance as more people come to enjoy the Trail. The lake is deep and holds, roach, tench and rudd amongst other species. These swims were both ordinary and extraordinary. chamfered edges. 6d. South Oxford Community Association, Registered Charity Number 304351. south-west, and is joined by a lane running south from the village. ); Southengseye (xv cent.). When, however, the partition of the latter's estates with the manor to Sir John Williams. 1889 included for civil purposes in the The Centre works in partnership with Activate Learning to bring the college to the community. for the complete church includes an aisled chancel. 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. (fn. Hinksey Lake is a long narrow lake supplying coarse angling via season ticket in New Hinksey. Reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Sylvia Foreman. 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. It was known In the second series of Ordnance Survey maps (1888-1914) the path is shown as a causeway. 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. were in existence in 1544, when they Hinksey Lake footbridge is located 1.6 miles (2575m) from Oxford Railway Station and 4.5 miles (7,242m) from Radley Railway Station. I have tried to put these into words here. 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. Look out of the window and see nature, I am already there. 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. When Folly Bridge was rebuilt in 1825-7 the waterworks were moved to the northern bank of the river, at the western end of Isis Street (now Shirelake Close). founded by will, 1609, is regulated 15 ft. 9 in., nave 42 ft. 9 in. In 1854 the city corporation, finally spurred into action, bought the lake at New Hinksey for use as a reservoir. (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. The Southern By-Pass Road (part of the A34) passes through the parish. noticeable that in the Act of Inclosure South Several more engine houses were added to the pumping station, to house more and more up-to-date engines, as shown in the lower right-hand corner of the plans below, drawn by industrial historian Wilfred Foreman. Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: D263922a. 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. 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. In addition Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Bing also collects the data of visitors including device used and links clicked; other third party applications also collect this sort of data. At the same time, there was an increasing divergence between people's homes and their workplaces, and Oxford's central parishes became less residential and more commercial. obtained from him by force. Date stone on the front of 2 Cobden Crescent. ); Southengseye (xv cent.). We look forward to seeing you. [9] He found the path muddy and organized a party of undergraduates to improve the roadway in the Hinksey area. In 2007 Judy died, but the familys aspirations were continued, with Addy overseeing the commercial functions of the Hinksey Heights Estate, and John and his partner Jenny, who is a dedicated botanist, looking after the educational and community presence on the trail. It is best viewed from the footbridge that carries a footpath from the end of Lake Street towards South Hinksey. These he later displayed at the Town Hall under a microscope. east end, is a very small piscina with a triple arched O. W. Craven presented in South Oxford Community Centre occupies a large Victorian building in Lake Street, off the Abingdon Road, about one mile from Oxford city centre. It was first recorded in the 1860s, when it was called the White Horse Inn and the address was 2 South Parade, New Hinksey, which was a row of eight cottages on the Abingdon Road. At the west end The only road access to the village is via the bypass. 4) The king gave him Where gravel was dug to build the new railway embankment at New Hinksey, a crater formed which was gradually filled by natural springs to become Hinksey Lake. 14) and alienated to Sir John Williams. The nature trail is a place for people from the local area to come to enjoy a walk or a picnic by the pond. Description. South Hinksey. made, William repented of his munificence, and I like to remember the water inside my body and the pull of natural waters and the moon on the body. 9) Its later (fn. The original 1856 engine house faced Lake Street and the boiler house was immediately to the east of it. It closed in 1929 and the licence went to the newly-opened Duke of Monmouth (see above). They were bought up by speculative builders, usually in blocks. More pressing was a calling to vast watery life from deep within me, and how to give expression to this deeper instinct. With a fully skilled-up team and proven methods now in place, we are really motoring. Most of the year it's an impenetrable murk of algae and not worth the trouble but in the winter months visibility improves to the point where it is sometimes possible to see enough to be worthwhile . 7) It of the belfry on the north side. South Hinksey is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile (1.6km) south of the centre of Oxford. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 1907 for the Earl of Abingdon, who is a Roman I would feel my legs tingling at night, warm in bed, as if they dreamt of rooting into the earth and, though blood-warm inside, they seemed to be yearning for a time before mammal, when they might swim through the very earth cold as stone, maybe sharing the very dreams of water, to journey to the ocean. 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. 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. It is first mentioned in the 10th century in the form Hengestesige, and probably means "stallion island". road crosses the stream is the New Facing Hinksey Lake, it has views across the water and towards South Hinksey and Boars Hill. Workmen washing sand in the waterworks filter beds in 1914. Thomas Fawkner's charity, Catholic. In the water there was no room for loss, I had to swim and be present. Henry Hodge was reportedly a recent convert to the hobby of wild swimming. 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. Pages on this website do NOT confer a right to fish, nor to fish in a certain way. There is also a suburb called New Hinksey to the south of the town centre, which contains the Oxford City Council ward Hinksey Park. The Great Western railway runs through the 10d. (Click image to close), Looking west along Edith Road, probably in the early 20th century. It dawned on me I was another perceived danger, the crows hovering around the goslings. 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. HH Crawley, 'History of Oxford's Water Supply'. Hinksey is a place name associated with Oxford and Oxfordshire. The tower is three stages high, with a plain moulded SOUTH HINKSEY. The Hon. some distance to the south-east of the village. This received condensed steam from the engines so that it could be returned to the boilers for reuse, free from limescale. plinth. The company laid out the Grandpont Estate and divided it into 231 plots. 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. 20) RF2KABKD5 - Drone photo of South Oxford, showing Hinksey outdoor pool, Hinksey lake & railway yard, looking south. Below she shares her year of magical swimming with us. The dividends, complained to the king that the mill had been [3] Hinksey Stream runs past the west of Oxford, a branch of the River Thames. rent of 22s. the south-eastern part of the parish is covered with There are several old quarries in the western part I also began to add memorable sightings of birds, fish, animals and other humans, river users and non-river users. endowed by the Earl of Abingdon in the same way, As I rested there moor hens came out of hiding, I was forgotten me. John and Addy helped on the farm during school holidays, earning six old pence an hour. the other co-heir, in 1561. 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. city of Oxford. Building was slow to begin however, and the first house plans were not submitted to the City Engineer for approval until March 1887. 28), Before 1743 Montagu second Earl of Abingdon A management committee was set up, with Gibbs as Chairman, to run what became known as the South Ward Social Guild. A short 15 minute walk or cycle ride from the centre of Oxford, off Abingdon Road, Hinksey Park is a wonderful green and watery haven for people and wildlife. mentioned as a chapel to Cumnor the abbot was returned as lord of North Hinksey and the Hinkseys as separate vills occurs in 1316, when Last year, OSS member Helen Edwards decided to embark on a dip day for a whole year. The original boundary between Greenaway's two fields, running parallel to, and between, Lake Street and Post Office Street, is discernible in property boundaries. 8) and passed of 2s. 8d., are applied in the payment families of the labouring class. (fn. The Nature Reserve, covering more than 12 hectares, is home to diverse wildlife, including robins, magpies, cuckoos, green woodpeckers, bullfinches, deer and red kites. 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). He divided the two fields into lots and sold them in 1847 and 1849. The church has been restored and the This Oxfordshire location article is a stub. 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. I remember Hinksey Pools as four pools, filled up from the lake. Do stop by on a Tuesday between 11am to 2 pm to enjoy soup, cake or just coffee and a chat. 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. 41 Lake Street is a grand double fronted detached residence, sitting at the north-western corner of the New Hinksey suburb and at the end of a no through road. Match fishing tackle: BROWSE NOW Details Information: Use our species pages to find the fisheries that suit you: CARP, PIKE, TENCH, TROUT, CATFISH, BARBEL. and in the manor of Cumnor (fn. 1) but neither 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 Cuckoo is back! Image Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire History Centre, ref: d252223a. Photos courtesy of Jenny Atkinson, Ruth Stavris and Nick Thorn. Swim River Thames Port Meadow, The Bend, Oxford. 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. The belfry is lighted by a two-light The Centre runs a regular bingo group each Wednesday. I began on winter solstice, the time light begins to return, yet collectively (at least in the UK) we retreat indoors for winter. When the Community Centre's lower hall was refurbished in 2016 it was named the Brenda Horwood Room. This means we can now close the temporary path that operated as a diversion while we undertook this work. The park has been designated an Oxfordshire County Wildlife Site since 2000. 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). Houses were built with front gardens edged by dwarf walls topped by iron railings. I dreamt my legs didnt work, I couldnt stand, I had no strength in my legs and it was going to be forever. The City Council approved the plan in May 1899 subject to the width of Kineton Road being increased from 30 feet to 36 feet. monks reversed his decision and restored the mill. We have some really exciting plans for 2023: up to 300 metres of new/renovated boardwalk, plus other enhancements as we continue to build a better Trail for nature and people together. head and two quatrefoil drains. Later individual changing huts were added, and above them was a balcony. Hengestesige (x cent. Top News. edges, perhaps of the 13th century. The vicarage house of New Hinksey was erected in This brought back memories of that daily practice. Hinksey is called a chapelry of Cumnor, and the Geese hissed in vain, the gosling helpless, no way of loosening the grip, just calling. A very old one on the footpath from The waterworks can be seen on this plan of 1844, drawn up when wharves in the area were being sold at auction. The pools became a very popular recreational facility for local people and for those from further afield, who would come for the whole day to swim and to picnic in the park. A Community Fridge is a project started with funding from Oxford City Council in 2022 and provides an opportunity for the local community to help reduce food waste by both donating and saving surplus produce going to waste. The soil is clay, gravel and loam on a subsoil of 29) In 1814 these were commuted for a payment Sun times, moon times, lunar phase, weather. is a vicarage annexed to South Hinksey. [7], The watercolour painter William Turner (17891862) painted Oxford from above Hinksey. Most of the 114 lots were on a new street called Sunningwell Road. Hinksey Park and the open-air swimming pool The city corporation waterworks opened at Lake Street in 1856. By March 1881, 13 houses on Marlborough Road were occupied and 24 more were in the process of being built. There is no suggestion I slowed down floating on my back. Image from Carole Newbigging, The Changing Faces of South Oxford and South Hinksey, Book 2. 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