Osney
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Osney or Osney Island ( pronunciation : [ ˈoʊzni ], an old form of the name is Oseney ) is a residential area to the west of Oxford in England . The name is also used for the settlement of Osney Town , which is west of Oxford Railway Station. It is an island formed by the Thames , whose tributary is the Osney Ditch and another tributary, the Bulstake Stream .
Until the early 20th century, the name was used for another island formed by the Castle Mill Stream and the main arm of the Thames. Osney Abbey and Osney Mill were founded on this island in the Middle Ages . This place is mentioned in The Miller's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales .
history
The name "Osney" is Old English and means island in the Ouse (possibly an old name of the Thames) or Osas Island . To the north, the island is separated from Fiddler's Island by the Sheepwash Channel .
Osney Abbey was founded in 1129 in the south of the island and Rewley Abbey was founded in 1280 in the north. The Osney Mill was established by the Osney Abbey in the west of the island. The land of both abbeys was transferred to Christ Church College in 1538 as a result of the dissolution of the English monasteries .
1790 was Mühlkanal the Osney Mill by the opening of Osney lock the main arm of the river.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, only the part of the island east of St Thomas's Church was built on. In the 19th century the island changed significantly. The Great Western Railway built its north-south route across the island in 1850, and this included the Osney Rail Bridge at the south end of the island and a bridge at the north end over the Sheepwash Channel. The associated train station was opened on the island in 1852. In 1851 the Buckinghamshire Railway opened its route from the north via the Sheepwash Channel and Rewley Road station next to the Great Western Railway station. To accommodate the railway workers, Osney Town was planned by George P. Hester on the island west of Osney in 1851. Hester had leased the land from Christ Church College for this purpose. In the 1860s, New Osney was laid out around Mill Street, south of Botley Road between the railroad and the river. The Cripley area was created north of Botley Road in 1878. Osney Cemetery was opened in the south of the island in 1848.
present
The name Osney is mostly used today as a name for Osney Town. Most of Osny's residents live in 19th-century townhouses, which is what Hester planned to look like. There are some newer buildings on Bridge Street and West Street, as well as a few significantly larger houses spread across the island.
The name Osney is no longer used for the island that historically bore that name. The part of the island that is east of the railroad is now called St Thomas. The historical name is preserved in the designations: New Osney, Osney Lane, Osney Cemetery, Osney Mill and Osney Marina. Botley Road (A420) leads over the Osney Bridge from the west to the historic island.
Osney Mead
From 1961 onwards, an industrial park was built on pastureland , which was named Osney Mead in 1966 . The area extends from Osney and the Bulstake Stream to the east of Ferry Hinksey Road. The industrial park was originally intended to give local companies that were previously poorly located a better location.
See also
literature
- Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England. Oxfordshire Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1974, ISBN 0-14-071045-0 , pp. 334-335.
- Mary Prior: Fisher Row: fishermen, bargemen and canal boatmen in Oxford, 1500–1900. Phillimore, Chichester 2011, ISBN 978-1-86077-652-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Canterbury Tales ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Miller's Tale, chapter 4, line 88.
- ↑ C. Hibbert (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Oxford. Macmillan, London 1988, ISBN 0-333-48614-5 .
- ^ Paul Marriott: Oxford Street Names explained. Paul J. Marriott, Oxford 1977, ISBN 0-9505730-1-9 .
- ^ A History of the County of Oxford. Volume 4: Sites and Remains of Religious Houses. on british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ A History of the County of Oxford. Volume 4: Communications: Rivers and River Navigation. on british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ A History of the County of Oxford. Volume 4: Modern Oxford: Development of the city. on british-history.ac.uk.
- ↑ Ann Spokes Symonds, Nigel Morgan: The Origins of Oxford Street Names. Robert Boyd Publications Witney 2010, ISBN 978-1-899536-99-3 , p. 166.
- ^ A History of the County of Oxford. Volume 4: Modern Oxford: Economic History after 1918. on british-history.ac.uk.
