Hinksey

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] Hinksey Stream runs past the west of Oxford, a branch of the River Thames.

[8] The art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900) used to walk between Abingdon, where he stayed at the Crown and Thistle, and Oxford.

[9] He found the path muddy and organized a party of undergraduates to improve the roadway in the Hinksey area.

[11] Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) mentions Hinksey in his poems Thyrsis and The Scholar Gipsy.

Conduit House, a roofed reservoir at Hinksey for Oxford's first water mains, built during the early 17th century
John Ruskin's road builders at Ferry Hinksey