parliamentary constituency. Modern Osney Modern Osney was laid out in 1851 by George P. Hester, who bought the land and set out the streets as they lie today in order to house railway workers. Most of Osney's two hundred-odd households live in nineteenth-century terraced cottages built on Hester's original grid, although there are a number of newer buildings on Bridge and West Streets, as well as a few significantly larger houses scattered throughout the island. The island presently has two pub… (More on Osney)