Chippenham
Sign in to saveChippenham is a market town and civil parish in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies north-east of Bath, west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, where some form of settlement is believed to have existed since before Roman times. It was a royal vill and probably a royal hunting lodge, under Alfred the Great. The town continued to grow when the Great Western Railway arrived in 1841. In 2021 the parish had a population of 36,548.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Chippenham
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Andrew's Chippenham.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Andrew's Church, Chippenham
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 158.42
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.population
- 36,548
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Chippenham
- UK place.unitary_england
- Wiltshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Wiltshire
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Chippenham
- UK place.post_town
- CHIPPENHAM
- UK place.postcode_area
- SN
- UK place.postcode_district
- SN14, SN15
- UK place.dial_code
- 01249
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST919733
- UK place.hide_services
- Yes
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- History
- Etymology
- Early settlements
- High and Late Medieval
- 16th to 18th centuries
- 19th and 20th centuries
- Geography
- Location
- Suburbs
- Landmarks
- Climate
- Population
- Governance
- Economy
- Market
- Shopping
- Transport
- Railway
- Roads
- Buses
- Tourism
- Twinned towns
- Culture
- Local media
- Sport and leisure
- Education
- 17th and 18th centuries
- Late 19th century
- 20th century
- Present day
- Religion
- Church of England
- Roman Catholic
- Non-Conformist
- Closed churches
- Notable people
- Freedom of the Town
- See also
- References
- External links
Chippenham is a market town and civil parish in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies north-east of Bath, west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, where some form of settlement is believed to have existed since before Roman times. It was a royal vill and probably a royal hunting lodge, under Alfred the Great. The town continued to grow when the Great Western Railway arrived in 1841. In 2021 the parish had a population of 36,548.
==History== ===Etymology=== The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the town as Cippanhamme: this could refer to a person called Cippa who had his hamm, an enclosure in a river meadow. An alternative theory suggests that the name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word ceap, meaning 'market'. The name is recorded variously as Cippanhamm (878), Cepen (1042), Cheppeham (1155), Chippenham (1227), Shippenham (1319) and Chippyngham (1541). In John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611), the name is spelt both "Chippenham" (for the hundred) and "Chipnam" (for the town).