New Hinksey

New Hinksey is a suburb in the south of the city of Oxford.

New Hinksey
New Hinksey Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP516045
Civil parish	unparished
District	Oxford
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Oxford
Postcode district	OX1
Dialling code	01865
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Oxford West and Abingdon
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°44′13″N 1°15′14″W / 51.737°N 1.254°W / 51.737; -1.254

Geography

The suburb is west of the Abingdon Road (A4144). To the north is Grandpont and to the east, over Donnington Bridge, which crosses the River Thames, is Cowley. To the west is the railway line between Oxford and Didcot Parkway and beyond that Hinksey Stream, a branch of the River Thames.

Amenities

The original Church of England parish church of Saint John the Evangelist was designed by the Gothic Revival architect EG Bruton and built in 1870.^[1] In 1900 it was demolished and replaced by one designed by the Scots architects William Bucknall and Ninian Comper.^[1] New Hinksey Church of England Primary School is on Vicarage Road, beside St. John the Evangelist church.^[2] There is a large outdoor public swimming pool^[3] in Hinksey Park^[4] between New Hinksey and Grandpont.

History

The suburb of New Hinksey was developed in the 19th century. Until then the area was covered by water meadows. New Hinksey was in Berkshire, in the parish of South Hinksey, until 1889, when it was absorbed into the city of Oxford.^[5] It remained in the ecclesiastical parish of South Hinksey, which is now called the parish of South with New Hinksey.^[6]

References

1. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 335
2. New Hinksey CE Primary School
3. Oxford City Council: Hinskey Pool
4. Oxford City Council: Hinskey Park
5. Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 408-410
6. The Church of England: St John the Evangelist, Oxford

Sources

• Eleanor Chance; Christina Colvin; Janet Cooper; C.J. Day; T.G. Hassall; Nesta Selwyn (1979). Crossley, Alan; Elrington, C.R. (eds.). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 4.
• Page, William; Ditchfield, P.H., eds. (1924). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. pp. 408–410.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 335. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.