685-688: First mention of settlement when land given to the Abbey at Abingdon by King Caedwalla of the West Saxons.

1066: From the Eleventh Century the land was in the possession of the Earls of Abingdon

The Doomesday Book shows it as part of the Hundred of Hormer

Thirteenth Century: St Laurence Church built.

15Century: St Laurence church tower built

1536: Dissolution of the Monasteries. South Hinksey passes to the Crown, and in 1537-38: leased to Thomas Peers.

1553: passed to the Lord of the Manor of Cumnor

Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century: Some of the oldest surviving cottages and farm buildings built

1814: Enclosure Act: South Hinksey is still part of Cumnor

1828: John Towle (1796-1883) married at South Hinksey Church 22 September. He was one of Oxford’s first two non-conformist aldermen, and elected Mayor of Oxford in 1856. At the time of his marriage he was a paper-maker at Weirs Mill in Grandpont. By 1851 he was living in South Hinksey. The 1861 Census shows him at Hinksey Paper Mill, South Hinksey. In the present age the sluice gate at Towles Mill, near Redbridge, has been a notorious pinch-point causing flooding on the Hinksey Stream. It is currently being widened.

1853: The village features in Mathew Arnold’s The Scholar Gypsy.

1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described South Hinksey thus

1871 Tom Besson, Mayor of Oxford, lived at 38 Post Office Street, South Hinksey.

1938. A34 built, a 3-lane highway from Hinksey to Botley, nicknamed "the road from nowhere to nowhere". During the War, it was closed at both ends and used for tank assembly.

1939-45: Second World War. Pictures by courtesy of Tony Allsworth. (click to view) Concert programme   South Hinksey Lane   Church   View from the Hill

1955: Baptist Chapel bought by Parish as Village Hall

1973 A34 connected to Abingdon bypass, became dual carriageway. Southern access to the village closed and Parker Road constructed.

1999: Current boundaries of Parish drawn