Ferry Hinksey Road

[1] The road leads to the Osney Mead Industrial Estate to the east, started in 1961.

The latter is named after John Ruskin (1819–1900) who used to pass this way between Ferry Hinksey and Oxford, where he was the first Slade Professor of Fine Art from 1869.

[4] The path was originally built in 1876–77 by Aubrey Harcourt (1852–1904), a major local landowner,[5] but was not made open to the public until 1922.

There is also a smaller unmade path which begins alongside the large back garden of The Fishes and crosses Hinksey Stream by a bridge at the site of the old ferry, which linked Ferry Hinksey with Oxford.

A poem called Ferry Hinksey by Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) describes the bucolic nature of the area before Osney Mead Industrial Estate was developed.