Bablock Hythe

The Thames at Bablock Hythe

Bablock Hythe is a hamlet west of Oxford in Oxfordshire . There used to be a vehicle ferry across the Thames at this point .

The earliest mention of a ferry is in 1279. The ferry was in service until the middle of the 20th century. It was operated with the help of a rope or a chain, which posed a certain danger to shipping. There was also an inn called The Checkers mentioned by William Sr. in his book Royal River in the 1880s. The pub was remodeled in the early 1990s and renamed The Ferry Inn and later The Ferryman .

The poet Matthew Arnold mentioned the ferry in 1853 in his poem The Scholar Gipsy .

Individual evidence

^ Fred S. Thacker: The Thames Highway. Volume II: Locks and Weirs. 1920 - 1968 reissued, David & Charles, Newton Abbot.
↑ Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about the River Thames. Ebury Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-09-193357-9 , p. 39.
^ The Scholar-Gipsy by Matthew Arnold. poetryfoundation.org, accessed January 19, 2016 .

51.732432 -1.368668Coordinates: 51 ° 43'56.8 " N , 1 ° 22'7.2" W.

[1] Fred S. Thacker: The Thames Highway. Volume II: Locks and Weirs. 1920 - 1968 reissued, David & Charles, Newton Abbot.

[2] Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about the River Thames. Ebury Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-09-193357-9 , p. 39.

[3] The Scholar-Gipsy by Matthew Arnold. poetryfoundation.org, accessed January 19, 2016 .