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New Hinksey, Oxford — Area Guide & Where to Stay
New Hinksey is a district of Oxford, where St Luke's Church and the Church of St Lawrence stand among a short run of named houses.
About New Hinksey
Where to stay in New Hinksey
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Most visitors sleep elsewhere. New Hinksey is a residential corner of Oxford, and the practical choice is to book in the city and treat the district as somewhere to walk to rather than sleep in. Rivermead and the Manor House are the markers to aim for.
If you do want to stay out this way, the streets around St Luke's Church give the quietest ground, with the Church of St Lawrence a few minutes off.
About New Hinksey
What are the main landmarks in New Hinksey?
Church dedications do most of the work here. St Luke's Church, the Church of St Lawrence, and the Church of St John the Evangelist account for the religious fabric, and between them they give New Hinksey most of what it is known for. The houses fill the rest: Manor House, Paisley House, Nowell House, and Rivermead.
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What is the history of New Hinksey?
Its past sits in four houses. Manor House, Paisley House, Nowell House, and Rivermead are the buildings that the record singles out, and their names are almost the whole of what survives in writing about the district. Parish life ran through the Church of St Lawrence and St Luke's Church.
The Church of St John the Evangelist joins them on the same short list, leaving New Hinksey a district better known by its buildings than by its dates.
Where is New Hinksey?
New Hinksey lies inside Oxford, a district whose ground carries Rivermead, the Manor House, and the Church of St John the Evangelist.
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Updated September 2026