Chinnor
Sign in to saveChinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about southeast of Thame and close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is a spring line settlement on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern escarpment. Since 1932 the civil parish has included the village of Emmington. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 5,924.
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Place details
- Locality
- South Oxfordshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Chinnor
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Andrew's Church, Chinnor, Oxfordshire 1.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Andrew's parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP7500
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.civil_parish
- Chinnor
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 13.83
- UK place.population
- 5924
- UK place.population_ref
- (including Emmington, Henton & Oakley as well as 'very small' civil parish of Crowell) (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- South Oxfordshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Oxfordshire
- Population
- +5924
- Area
- +13.83
- Shares border with
- Sydenham
- Official website
- www.chinnorparishcouncil.org.uk
- Image
- St Andrew's Church, Chinnor, Oxfordshire 1.jpg
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- Pre-history
- Manor
- Churches
- Church of England
- Anabaptist
- Congregational
- Methodist
- Social and economic history
- Schools
- Transport
- Notable people
- Amenities
- Sport
- Leisure
- Demography
- References
- Sources
- External links
Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about southeast of Thame and close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is a spring line settlement on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern escarpment. Since 1932 the civil parish has included the village of Emmington. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 5,924.
==Pre-history== The Icknield Way is a pre-Roman road. The site of an Iron Age settlement from perhaps the 4th century BC has been excavated on the Chiltern ridge in the southern part of the parish. Traces of Romano-British occupation have been found both on the same high ground and below on Icknield Way. A twin barrow on Icknield Way has been found to contain the weapons of a Saxon warrior that have been dated to the 6th century. Chinnor's toponym may originally have meant the ora ("slope") of a man called Ceona.