What is the origin of the word 'chipping' in place names such as Chipping Norton?
"the company went into administration, the factory closed, and on 7 March 2011 the works were bought by 53N Bowland Ltd. Chipping is named in the Domesday Book as ""Chippenden""; the name is derived from the medieval ""Chepyn"" meaning market place. Chipping is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, and is probably derived from ""ceapen"", an Old English word meaning 'market', though the meaning may alternatively come from (or via) the Medieval English word ""chepynge"" with a more specific meaning of 'long market square'. Chipping is a civil parish, and formerly an ancient parish that"
"Chipping Norton Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about southwest of Banbury and northwest of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 6,337. The Rollright Stones, a stone circle north of Chipping Norton, is evidence of prehistoric habitation in the area. The town's name means 'market north town', with ""Chipping"" (from Old English ""cēping"") meaning 'market'. Chipping Norton began as a small settlement at the foot of a hill on which stand the motte-and-bailey Chipping Norton Castle. Only the earthworks of the castle"
"as some place names suggest: Market Drayton, Market Harborough, Market Rasen, Market Deeping, Market Weighton, Chipping Norton, Chipping Ongar, and Chipping Sodbury ""chipping"" was derived from a Saxon verb meaning ""to buy"". A major study carried out by the University of London found evidence for least 2,400 markets in English towns by 1516. The English system of charters established that a new market town could not be created within a certain travelling distance of an existing one. This limit was usually a day's worth of travelling (approximately ) to and from the market. If the travel time exceeded this standard,"
"in Chipping Norton; Brooks, Cameron, Clarkson, Murdoch. Drinking champagne and laughing our heads off at everyone else."" Chipping Norton set The Chipping Norton set refers to a group of media, political and show-business acquaintances who have homes around (but not in) the market town of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, England. Chipping Norton is located approximately 75 miles from London. Members of the Chipping Norton set regularly met socially, but the group gained notoriety in the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal, which directly involved members of the group. Notable meetings of the group have included Rebekah and Charlie"
"Chipping Norton set The Chipping Norton set refers to a group of media, political and show-business acquaintances who have homes around (but not in) the market town of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, England. Chipping Norton is located approximately 75 miles from London. Members of the Chipping Norton set regularly met socially, but the group gained notoriety in the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal, which directly involved members of the group. Notable meetings of the group have included Rebekah and Charlie Brooks's wedding reception near Chipping Norton, a 2010 Christmas dinner at the Brookses', and Elisabeth Murdoch and"
"is recorded in Old English (in the dative case) as ""Soppanbyrig"" = ""Soppa's fort"". ""Chipping"" (from Old English ""cēping"") means that a market was held there. Edward Jenner, in the 18th century, started his medical training in Sodbury, observing people catching cowpox and then ""not"" catching smallpox. RC ""Jack"" Russell: former England cricket wicket keeper and artist owns an art gallery in the town. Sir James Dyson, inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, lives at Dodington Park just outside Chipping Sodbury. J.K. Rowling, author of the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series, was born in 1965 at the Chipping Sodbury"
"the East. The site is currently farmland. Part of the site is used for airsoft. Riftairsoft.com RAF Chipping Norton Royal Air Force Chipping Norton or more simply RAF Chipping Norton is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. It was operational from 10 July 1940 to 1945 and returned to agricultural use when disposed of in 1953. The following units were posted to this airfield at some point: Airspeed Oxfords and North American Harvard I's flew from this airfield. The station was bombed on two occasions in October and November 1940. Little damage was"
"RAF Chipping Norton Royal Air Force Chipping Norton or more simply RAF Chipping Norton is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. It was operational from 10 July 1940 to 1945 and returned to agricultural use when disposed of in 1953. The following units were posted to this airfield at some point: Airspeed Oxfords and North American Harvard I's flew from this airfield. The station was bombed on two occasions in October and November 1940. Little damage was done and on the second attempt the Luftwaffe missed the airfield by about a mile to"
"Norton (surname) Norton is a surname with origin from the basic Early English ""norþ + tun"", meaning North settlement (cf Weston, Sutton and Easton for other surnames derived from points of the compass). There are many English villages called Norton or including Norton as part of the name, e.g. Midsomer Norton, Chipping Norton, Brize Norton etc. When surnames started to be used in the Middle Ages, a man from such a village might have the name added e.g. Tom of Norton. Alternatively a man from the north side of any village might be given the name Tom Norton to distinguish"
"of the News International phone hacking scandal, which directly involved a number of its members. Those members affected, along with several attendees of their social functions, were victims of phone hacking by the ""News of the World"". Notable meetings of the group have included Rebekah and Charlie Brooks's wedding reception near Chipping Norton, a 2010 Christmas dinner at the Brooks's, and Elisabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud's 2011 Summer party at Burford Priory. This list includes notable persons who were born or have lived in Chipping Norton. Chipping Norton is twinned with Magny-en-Vexin in France. Chipping Norton Chipping Norton is a"
"Chipping Norton School Chipping Norton School is a mixed secondary school with academy status located in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It is attended by 1000 students, with 200 in Sixth Form. It has no specific religious denomination and is a non-boarding, Arts and Science college. The school joined the River Learning Trust, a multi-academy trust on 1 March 2017. The current head teacher is Barry Doherty, who replaced Simon Duffy from September 2018. The School extended to include a new 3-floor Science Block in 2011. It is next to the town's Leisure Centre and replaced a car park which"
"a state of mind. It’s where the stars of Westminster and White City can be machos of the manor, shooting, riding and drinking...Top Londoners who can afford the £750,000 per cottage lifestyle here lead a phoney county life where a BlackBerry is charged, not picked...Anywhere else in the world, country folk are desperate to appear city sophisticates; it's only in Britain that urbanites invest millions in buying a ""country"" pedigree."" Comedian Graeme Garden, who has lived locally for 30 years, said, ""I can think of more acceptable reasons for Chipping Norton to be put on the map, rather than through"
"Chipping Barnet Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a market town in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north north-west of Charing Cross, east from Borehamwood, west from Enfield and south from Potters Bar. Its name is very often abbreviated to just Barnet, which is also the name of the borough of which it forms a part. Chipping Barnet is also the name of the Parliamentary constituency covering the local area - the word ""Chipping"" denotes the presence of a market, one that was established here at"
"Chipping Norton Lake Chipping Norton Lake is a lake located at Chipping Norton, New South Wales. It is a part of the Georges River system. Chipping Norton Lake is managed by Liverpool City Council and is an artificial lake. The lake is an important recreational area for Liverpool, Canterbury-Bankstown Council and Fairfield City Council. The Chipping Norton Lake area was inhabited by the Tharawal and Darug people before European settlement. The land surrounding Georges River (there was no lake at that time) was given to Thomas Moore, an early settler and carpenter for the colony. He established farmland around the"
"Chimps, most notably for use in the PG Tips Tea Television advertisements which ran from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Hearth tax reveals there were 16 families living in the village in 1564 and a total of 40 inhabitants were charged the tax in 1664. In 1829 the parish of Norton is revealed to have had a population of 301; with an additional 74 living in an exclave of the parish at Bilston. Norton Juxta Twycross Norton Juxta Twycross, usually known as simply ""Norton"" ""(or ""Norton-Juxta"")"", is a small village in Leicestershire, England. The village is part of the"
"not demolished for at least another 10-15 years. The site that was once occupied by the station and goods yard is now part of an industrial estate, and only the cattle shed remains. The tunnel through the hill and bridge for the road still exist, but the tunnel has been closed and has become flooded due to the filling-in of the bridge. Chipping Norton railway station Chipping Norton railway station served the town of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The station had two platforms and a signal box. The station was opened in 1855 as the terminus of the Chipping Norton"
"Chipping Norton, New South Wales Chipping Norton is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Chipping Norton is 27 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region There are two traditional custodians of the Chipping Norton Lake area – the Tharawal people, which inhabited the southern side of the Georges River, and the Darug people to the north and west of the River. Thomas Moore was granted waterfront land that is now part of the park."
"Churchill, Oxfordshire Churchill is a village and civil parish about southwest of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Since 2012 it has been part of the Churchill and Sarsden joint parish council area, sharing a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Sarsden. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 663. Churchill's toponym has evolved through forms including ""Cercelle"", ""Churchell"", and ""Cherchell"", reaching its current form was in use by 1537. The origin of the name is uncertain, though it may come from the Old English ""cyrc"", meaning a hill, burial ground, or"
"Chipping Norton railway station Chipping Norton railway station served the town of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The station had two platforms and a signal box. The station was opened in 1855 as the terminus of the Chipping Norton Railway, which linked the town to the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway by a junction at . The line was promoted by William Bliss and its traffic included freight to and from his tweed mill at Chipping Norton. Goods trains started running to the station in June 1855 and the official opening to passengers took place on 10 August 1855. Initially there"
"after the Second World War. Churchill, Oxfordshire Churchill is a village and civil parish about southwest of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Since 2012 it has been part of the Churchill and Sarsden joint parish council area, sharing a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Sarsden. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 663. Churchill's toponym has evolved through forms including ""Cercelle"", ""Churchell"", and ""Cherchell"", reaching its current form was in use by 1537. The origin of the name is uncertain, though it may come from the Old English ""cyrc"", meaning"
"Warwickshire, two-and-a-half miles north-northwest of the town of Chipping Norton, and one-and-three-quarters of a mile west of the smaller village at Great Rollright. The monuments sit on the scarp of the Cotswold Hills, just as the scarp forms a ridge between the Stour valley to the north and the Swere valley to the south; geologically, this ridge had been formed from Chipping Norton limestone, itself a variant of the Great Oolite series of Jurassic limestone. In the 4th millennium BCE, around the start of the Neolithic period in Britain, British society underwent radical changes. These coincided with the introduction to"
"The Homestead, Chipping Norton The Homestead is a heritage-listed residence at Charlton Avenue, Chipping Norton, City of Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1884 to 1893. It is also known as Chipping Norton Homestead. The property is owned by the Chipping Norton Lakes Authority. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Situated near the Georges River north of Moorebank, Chipping Norton was a farming area throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century. It was named after an old English village by William Alexander Long, who was"
"the end of the 12th century and persists to this day. Chipping Barnet is one of the highest-lying urban settlements in London, with the town centre having an elevation of about . The town's name derives from an ancient settlement, recorded as Barneto 1070, Barnet 1197, La Barnette 1248, that is 'the land cleared by burning', from Old English ""bærnet"", referring to the clearing of this once densely forested area in early times. This was the site of the Battle of Barnet in 1471 (more accurately, Hadley), where Yorkist troops led by King Edward IV killed the rebellious ""Kingmaker"" Richard"
"Chipping Norton Railway The Chipping Norton Railway opened in 1855, first linking the town of Chipping Norton with the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. It closed in 1963 as part of the Beeching cuts, but freight traffic continued for a while after. Chipping Norton railway station was opened in 1855 as the terminus of the Chipping Norton Railway, which linked the town with the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway by a junction at . The line was promoted by William Bliss and its traffic included freight to and from his tweed mill at Chipping Norton. In the 1880s a railway"
"Chipping Norton Recording Studios Chipping Norton Recording Studios was a residential recording studio in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, which operated from 1971 until its closure in October 1999. The studios, originally set-up to be the in-house studio for Blue Horizon Records, operated out of the former British Schools building, 26-30 New Street, which is a Grade II listed building - further properties were added in adjacent buildings and the studio eventually provided 15 bedrooms with on-site catering for visiting musicians. Songs that were recorded at the studio include ""Baker Street"" by Gerry Rafferty, ""In The Army Now"" by Status Quo,"
"Chipping Norton Town Swifts F.C. Chipping Norton Town Football Club is a football club based in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. They are currently members of the and play at Walterbush Road. The club was established in 1893. After winning back-to-back Oxfordshire Senior League titles in 1951–52 and 1952–53, they became founder members of the Hellenic League in 1953. They were placed in the Premier Division when the league added a second division in 1956, but were relegated to Division One after finishing bottom of the table in 1959–60. However, they won Division One at the first attempt to return to the"
"with a pot to the other fishermen asking them to chip in whatever they could. What ever ended up in the pot became their Cioppino. The fishermen that chipped in expected the same treatment if they came back empty handed in the future. It later became a staple as Italian restaurants proliferated in San Francisco. The name comes from ""ciuppin"" which is the name of a classic soup from the Italian region Liguria, similar in flavor to cioppino but with less tomato and using Mediterranean seafood cooked to the point that it falls apart. The dish also shares its origin"
"Cricket Club plays in Oxfordshire Cricket Association Division 6. The town also has a bowls club. Chipping Norton has a Women's Institute, a Rotary Club, and a Lions Club. The town also hosts a number of annual arts festivals: Chipping Norton Literary Festival ('ChipLitFest'), Chipping Norton Music Festival, and Chippy Jazz and Music ('CJAM'). The Theatre Chipping Norton opened in 1975 in a converted Salvation Army citadel, and is a theatre, cinema, gallery and music venue. It hosts original productions and touring companies. Between 1972 and 1999 the former British Schools building in New Street was Chipping Norton Recording Studios."
"holder of the title being Bob Barr. Kings Norton Kings Norton, alternatively King's Norton, is an area of Birmingham, England. Historically in Worcestershire, it is also a Birmingham City Council ward within the Government of Birmingham, England. The district lies 6.5 miles south-southwest of Birmingham city centre and is within 1.5 miles of the north Worcestershire border. There was Romano-British occupation near the later town. Excavations at Kings Norton found signs of a small Romano-British settlement, including Roman pottery and a Roman ditch at Parsons Hill, near Icknield Street. Kings Norton derives its origin from the basic Early English ""Nor"
"are primary schools. Chipping Norton School is the town's secondary school and has a sixth form. Chipping Norton Golf Club is the oldest in Oxfordshire. The course was started in 1890 on Chipping Norton Common. Chipping Norton Rugby Union Football Club first XV plays in the Southern Counties North League and was league champion for 2007–2008 . Chipping Norton Town F.C. (known as 'the magpies' or 'Chippy') play at Walterbush Road and were founded in 1893. They used to play in the Hellenic Football League but resigned and now play in the Witney & District Football League. Chipping Norton Town"
"The first saw and grist mills were built by Thomas Johnson in 1823 (saw) and 1830 (grist). Norton Township consisted of seven small villages: Loyal Oak (Also known as Bates' Corners located at 261 & Cleveland-Massillon Rd), Western Star (Greenwich and Medina Line Roads), Sherman (Originally known as Dennison located at Hametown Rd & Sherman St), Johnson's Corners (31st St & Wooster Rd W), Norton Center (Cleveland-Massillon & Greenwich Rd & Norton Ave), Hametown (Hametown and Wooster Roads), and New Portage (Wooster Rd N & Norton Ave.). One of Norton's famous families is the Seiberling family; Frank A. and Charles"
"Hook Norton Hook Norton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. It is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of Chipping Norton and close to the Cotswold Hills. Many of its buildings are built of local ironstone. In the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" in AD 922, the village is called ""Hocneratune"". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is called ""Hochenartone"". Other historical spellings of the name include ""Hocceneretune"" (1050), ""Hogenarton"" (1216) and ""Okenardton"" (1263). Another variation may be 'Hegnorton' as seen in 1430. The name may possibly mean 'the farmstead of the Hoccanere tribe', the supposed tribal name deriving from"
"the Tichborne Claimant, was born in Wapping. During the 1990s, Wapping was home to American entertainer Cher. TV presenter Graham Norton, currently (as of 2010) lives in the locality. The local station is Wapping on the London Overground East London line. Shadwell DLR station and Shadwell rail station are within walking distance. London Underground is accessible from nearby Aldgate East and Tower Hill tube stations. 100, D3, both operate within the area. Wapping is connected to the National Road Network by The Highway A1203 east–west to the north of the area. The Thames Path passes west–east through Wapping for cyclists"