page_title: Blackbird Leys
section_title: Modern history
hierarchical_section_title: Blackbird Leys / History / Modern history
caption_attribution_description: English: Evenlode Tower, Blackbird Leys Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford (right foreground), and Windrush Tower in the (left background), seen from the southeast from Pegasus Road. The towers were completed in 1962 and each has 60 flats. They are named after two tributaries of the River Thames in West Oxfordshire.
context_page_description: Blackbird Leys is a civil parish and ward in Oxford, England. According to the 2011 census, the population of the ward stood at 6,077. Unlike most parts of the City of Oxford, the area has a civil parish. The civil parish was created in 1990. In 2011 the population was recorded as 13,100.
context_section_description: The Blackbird Leys Estate was built mainly in the 1950s and 1960s to meet the then pressing need for housing. It was part of a plan to re-house people from the dilapidated inner city. This included large-scale clearance of a site near to where the Oxford Ice Rink was built (The Oxpens). Many of the families that moved onto the estate originally came from this area. It was also a convenient site for factory workers at the Morris Motors Limited plant in nearby Cowley.
caption: Evenlode Tower, with Windrush Tower in the background
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