What does the name 'Chipping' as in Chipping Norton mean?
Chipping Ongar Chipping Ongar Chipping Ongar is a small market town in the civil parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England. It is located east of Epping, southeast of Harlow and northwest of Brentwood. For population details taken at the 2011 Census see under the civil parish of Ongar. The name "Ongar" means "grass land" (akin to the German word: Anger). "Chipping" is from Old English "cēping", "a market, a market-place", akin to Danish "købing" and Swedish "köping"; the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now
Chipping Norton 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