Local links
Here are some links to other South Oxford organizations:
- Grandpont Nursery School and Children’s Centre
- Hinksey Outdoor Heated Pool Users Group
- Hogacre Common
- Lake Street Playgroup
- Low Carbon South Oxford
- New Hinksey CE Primary School
- St. Ebbe’s CE Primary School
- St. Luke’s Church
- St. John the Evangelist Church
- St. Matthew’s Church
- South Oxford Adventure Playground (SOAP)
- South Oxford Bowls Club
- South Oxford Farmers Market
- Spragglesea Mead and Dean’s Ham Allotment Association
Local history in South Oxford
1,000 years of history in South Oxford
Grandpont and South Oxford are late Victorian and 20th-century suburbs, but the history of this area goes back to the early medieval period, when south of what is now Folly Bridge was all open marshy meadowland, bisected by a huge causeway or grand pont of forty arches, the site of the original oxen ford which gave the city its name. Later South Oxford was home to Oxford’s first waterworks, its first railway station and its first football ground. Folly Bridge itself accommodates a number of historic and somewhat eccentric buildings, including Salter’s Steamers’ warehouses, workshops and offices, a toll house and a castle.
Click on the links below to find out more about the history of this fascinating but often overlooked part of Oxford:
- Grandpont and South Oxford through time
- Interesting aspects of the rich history of Grandpont and South Oxford
- Interesting buildings in Grandpont and South Oxford
- Finding out more
- 66 men of Grandpont, 1914-18 – the St Matthew’s WWI memorial project
This website was commended in the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 Public History Prize. This national prize recognises work which promotes public understanding of history and communicates a critical understanding of the past.
The development of these local history pages was kindly sponsored by Four Pillars Hotels, Brasenose College, The Greening Lamborn Trust and Oxford City Council. They are written and maintained by Liz Woolley. If you have any comments or information to add, please contact me.