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Hinksey is the name of a number of places on the fringe of Oxford, including the villages of North and South Hinksey, the suburb of New Hinksey, and Hinksey Stream, a branch of the River Thames. Prior to the county boundary changes of 1974, which transferred a large section of Berkshire to Oxfordshire, many of the places associated with the name were in the former.
History
[edit]The place name is of Old English origin. It is first mentioned in the 9th century in the form Hengestesieg,[1] and probably means "stallion island".[2] It may also mean "island of a man named Hengest", but there is no evidence to link the place to the historical Hengest. Place names ending in -ey ("island", commonly used of higher ground in a marshy area) are of early formation, probably names bestowed by the first English farmers who tackled the area.[3] The Hinksey villages were not mentioned as separate villages until 1316.[4]
Hinxey Hall was located in Oxford during the 14th to 16th centuries.[5]
The Carfax Conduit from Harcourt Hill (North Hinksey) to Carfax in the centre of Oxford was completed in 1617.[6]
Hinksey Halt railway station served New Hinksey in south Oxford during 1908−15. In 1934, Hinksey Park was laid out in New Hinksey.[7]
Geography
[edit]There are now two villages, North Hinksey to the west of the city of Oxford and South Hinksey to the southwest.[4] Hinksey Stream runs past the west of Oxford, a branch of the River Thames. Hinksey Hill Farm lies on Hinksey Hill, close to South Hinksey. Ferry Hinksey Road is a road in west 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. Here, Hinksey Park itself is an 11-acre park, including an open-air swimming pool, off Abingdon Road.[8]
Culture
[edit]The watercolour painter William Turner (1789–1862) painted many views of Oxford from the Hinksey area,[9] including Oxford from above Hinksey[10] and Oxford from Hinksey Hill.[11]
The art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900) used to walk between Abingdon, where he stayed at the Crown and Thistle, and Oxford.[12] He found the path muddy and organized a party of undergraduates to improve the roadway in the Hinksey area.[13]
Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) wrote a poem entitled Ferry Hinksey.[14]
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) mentions Hinksey in his poems Thyrsis and The Scholar Gipsy.
Sport
[edit]Hinksey Pool was the original home of Hinksey Sculling School, a community rowing club.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ↑ Gelling, Margaret (1974). The Place-Names of Berkshire, Part II. English Place-Name Society. pp. 450 f.
- ↑ Mills, A. D.; Room, A. (1998). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Gelling, M. (1988). "Towards a Chronology for Early English Place Names". In Hooke, D. (ed.). Anglo-Saxon Settlements. pp. 71, 73.
- 1 2 Lethbridge, Richard (1988). "Hinkseys, The". Oxfordshire and Berkshire. The New Shell Guides. London: Michael Joseph. p. 108. ISBN 0-7181-2908-3.
- ↑ Steane, John (1996). Oxfordshire. London: Pimlico, Random House. p. 197. ISBN 0-7126-6199-9.
- ↑ Jessup, Mary (1975). A History of Oxfordshire. The Darwen County History Series. London and Chichester: Phillimore. p. 114. ISBN 0-85033-206-0.
- ↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Hinksey Park". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. p. 185. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ↑ "Parks in Oxford – Hinksey Park". Oxford City Council. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ↑ Harrison, Colin (2000). Turner's Oxford. Ashmolean Museum. pp. 29, 35, 40, 84. ISBN 978-1854441386.
- ↑ Stevenson, Geoffrey (1977). Oxfordshire. Barracuda Guide to County History. Vol. II. Chesham: Barracuda Books. p. 73. ISBN 0-86023-026-0.
- ↑ "William Turner of Oxford ... Oxford from Hinksey Hill". Christie's. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
- ↑ Batchelor, John (2000). John Ruskin: No Wealth But Life. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 290. ISBN 1-856-19580-5.
- ↑ Wilde, Oscar (1908). "Art and the Handicraftsman". In Ross, Robert (ed.). Essays and Lectures. Methuen and Co.
- ↑ Binyon, Laurence (1982). "Ferry Hinksey". In Fraser, Antonia (ed.). Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse. Penguin Books. p. 30.
External links
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