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Coordinates: 51°44′13″N 1°15′14″W / 51.737°N 1.254°W
New Hinksey 
New Hinksey
New Hinksey shown within OxfordshireOS grid reference SP516045 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 EU Parliament South East England UK Parliament Oxford West and Abingdon List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire New Hinksey is a suburb in the south of the city of Oxford.
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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
- ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 335
- ^ New Hinksey CE Primary School
- ^ Oxford City Council: Hinskey Pool
- ^ Oxford City Council: Hinskey Park
- ^ Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 408-410
- ^ The Church of England: St John the Evangelist, Oxford
Sources and further reading
- Crossley, Alan; Elrington, C.R. (eds.); Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, C.J. Day, T.G. Hassall, Nesta Selwyn (1979). 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. pp. 335. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
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