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Chipping
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chipping
English
Etymology
From en ang ċīeping market, marketplace. Compare Swedish köping ("market"). Chipping, en Cheapside#Etymology Cheapside, and en cheap#Etymology cheap all reflect ancestry from Old English ang ceapian, concerning trading in markets.
Proper noun
en hamlet par/Buckland dist/East Hertfordshire co/Hertfordshire cc/England OS grid ref TL3532.
en village/and/civil parish in dist/Ribble Valley co/Lancashire cc/England OS grid ref SD6243. Parish map (Lancashire)
en Chepping Wycombe.
1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192:
CHIPPING, or Much-Wiccomb, a borough-town of Buckinghamſhire, about ten miles ſouth of Aileſbury...
Derived terms
en Chipping Barnet Chipping Campden Chipping Norton Chipping Ongar Chipping Sodbury Chipping Warden
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