H1NKSEY (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of
HORMER, county of BERKS, 1 mile (W.) from Oxford,
containing 182 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200
royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of the Earls of Abingdon and Harcourt
alternately. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence
Both North and South Hinksey were chapelries in the
parish of Cumner till separated from the mother
church, to which they still pay sixpence a year, called
" smoke money." This place, sometimes called Ferry
Hinksey, is situated on the western bank of the Isis.