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Bablock Hythe is a small hamlet in Oxfordshire, situated 5 miles west of Oxford city centre. There was formerly an important vehicular ferry across the River Thames at Bablock Hythe on the reach above Pinkhill Lock. The earliest reference to a ferry is in 1279 and later ferries continued to provide a crossing service until the mid 20th century. The ferry was a wide beamed ferry punt with a rope or chain in the river, which provided some hazard to navigation.〔Fred. S. Thacker: ''The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs'' (1920, republished 1968 by David & Charles).〕 There was also an ancient inn, ''The Chequers'', described by William Senior in his ''Royal River'' in the 1880s. This was rebuilt in the early 1990s and renamed as ''The Ferry Inn'' and later ''The Ferryman''.〔Christopher Winn: ''I Never Knew That about the River Thames'' (London: Ebury Press, 2010), p. 39.〕 The poet Matthew Arnold described the area in his 1853 work ''"The Scholar Gipsy"'', writing :In hat of antique shape and cloak of grey :Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe :Trailing in the cool stream they fingers wet :As the slow punt swings round. The site is overlooked by the "Warm green-muffled Cumnor Hills", but is now an extensive caravan site.〔Paul Goldsack ''River Thames: In the Footsteps of the Famous'' (Bradt/English Heritage 2003).〕 ==See also== *Crossings of the River Thames 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bablock Hythe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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