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'Chipping' is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, 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'. Examples include: Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... Middle English is the name given to an early form of the English language that was in common use from roughly the 12th to the 15th centuries— from after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066 to around the introduction of the printing press by William Caxton in...

Location within the British Isles. ... Chipping Norton refers to two places Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom Chipping Norton, Sydney, a suburb in inner Sydney This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Location within the British Isles Chipping Sodbury is a market town in South Gloucestershire, England. ... Chippenham is the name of more than one place: Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, England Chippenham, Wiltshire, England This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

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Chipping is a village located in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire. British toponymy (relating to the mainland and islands closely linked to it including the Shetland Islands, the Orkneys, and the Channel Islands) is the study of place names, their origins and the trends associated with naming places in specific regional areas. ... The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British place names please refer to British toponymy. ...


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