HINKSEY (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of
HORMER, county of BERKS, 1 mile (S.) from Oxford,
containing 142 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of
Salisbury, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of
Abingdon. The church is dedicated to St. John. In a
field north of the church is a conduit, erected in 1620,
for supplying the city of Oxford with water.