Gardens and Allotments
The access roads within the village are relatively narrow and winding and some are not suited for through vehicles thus providing a quiet backwater for residents to enjoy. Most houses have generous garden areas with hedges and ditches often forming the boundaries. The habitats within the village provide an attraction for a good number of plants and birdlife.
The other main housing area is located up Hinksey Hill and extends into an area of former woodland at Spring Copse and Badger Lane. The houses here are generally larger and some have extensive garden areas backing onto the Bagley Wood to the east or agricultural farmland to the west. These garden habitats attract a number of farmland and woodland species and contain a wide variety of native and introduced plants, shrubs and trees. Some gardens have ponds that whilst fairly formal but may attract good variety of wildlife including the common frog and common toad, dragonflies and damselflies and butterflies.
The grounds of Egrove Park, which borders onto the southeast corner of the parish provide a parkland environment comprising large trees in grounds of short cut grass. Some 20,000 trees were planted in these grounds when they were developed for the college in the early 1970s.The area was previously farmland and the original farm building still survives but is now converted to college accommodation. This change of use was brought about by the construction of the A34 that separated the original farm holding from most of its farmland. There is an allotment garden area owned and managed by the Oxford City Council located to the east side of the A34 close to Redbridge Hollow. Whilst some of these plots are intensively cultivated others are periodically redundant and attract an interesting variety of wildlife.