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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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HINKSEY (SOUTH), a village and a parish in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands near the Oxford railway, 1 mile SW of Oxford. The parish comprises 550 acres. Real property, £2, 390. Pop. in 1851, 300; in 1861, 636. Houses, 133. The increase of pop. was caused by the opening of the Oxford station on the Great Western railway. A new village, called New Hinksey, then arose, ½ a mile distant from the old one; and has a post office under Oxford. The property is subdivided. The Happy Valley, near the old village, affords a charming walk; and was much loved by Dr. Arnold. The view of Oxford, by Turner, was taken from a hill between the villages of S. Hinksey and N. Hinksey. The conduit built by Otho Nicholson of Christ Church, in 1617, to supply Oxford with water, is in the hill fields above the villages. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Wootton, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £183. Patron, the Earl of Abingdon. The church was repaired in 1860. John Piers, archbishop of York, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | South Hinksey CP/Ch Abingdon RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
| Place names: | HINKSEY | HINKSEY SOUTH | SOUTH HINKSEY |
| Place: | South Hinksey |
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