South Hinksey
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South Hinksey is a small village and civil parish, just off the Oxford ring road (A34) south-west of the city of Oxford in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire).
The only vehicular access is via the ring road. It is on the inside of the ring road and close to the Hinksey Stream, a branch of the River Thames at Oxford. Pedestrian and cycle access to the village from Oxford is via the "Devil's Backbone", a historic raised pathway across the neighbouring flood plains that features in Matthew Arnold's poem "The Scholar Gypsy".
It has always been difficult to get between North Hinksey to the north-west and South Hinksey. In Victorian times, John Ruskin tried to organize making a road between the two villages, since the ground was very swampy between them. Nowadays, they are connected by the ring road.
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