North Hinksey is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, immediately west of Oxford. The civil parish includes the large settlement of Botley, effectively a suburb of Oxford. North Hinksey was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
The village of North Hinksey has a manor house, The Fishes public house, a Church of England primary school and a Church of England parish church of Saint Lawrence that dates back to at least the 12th century. Four of the older houses have thatched roofs. There are also the administrative offices of the Church of England diocese of Oxford (Diocesan Church House). Harcourt Hill and Raleigh Park lie to the southwest of the village.
All the shopping and other facilities in the parish are now found in Botley. The centre of the old village is now effectively cut off from much of the newer part of Botley by the busy Oxford Ring Road, part of the A34 trunk road, though there are two pedestrian underpasses.
The parish also has a cemetery which includes 671 identified Commonwealth war graves.
Read more about North Hinksey: History, John Ruskin and The Diggers, Local Topography
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“Come see the north wind’s masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)