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{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name = Chippenham Village Sign.jpg|240px]]

| static_image_caption= <small>Chippenham village sign</small>

| official_name= Chippenham

| country= England

| region= East of England

| os_grid_reference= TL661697

| coordinates = {{coord|52.30|0.43|display=inline,title}}

| latitude= 52.30

| longitudelabel_position= 0.43left

| label_position= left

| post_town= ELY

| postcode_area= CB

| postcode_district= CB7

| dial_code= 01638

| civil_parish= Chippenham

| shire_county= [[Cambridgeshire]]

|shire_district= [[East Cambridgeshire]]

|constituency_westminster = [[South East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|South East Cambridgeshire]]

| population = 528 517

| population_ref = (2011)<ref name="2011Census">{{cite web|title=Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics. Area: Chippenham (Parish)|publisher=[[Office for National Statistics|ONS]]|year=2013|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121938&c=chippenham&d=16&e=62&g=6405575&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1359838252145&enc=1|accessdate=2 February 2013}}</ref>

| population_ref = <ref>[http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3E37A81E-752E-4684-98E5-76059B0AA31C/0/Chippenham.pdf 2001 census]</ref>

|website= [http://www.chippenhamcambs.info/ Chippenham Village Website]

}}

'''Chippenham''' is a [[village]] and [[civil parish]] in [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], part of [[East Cambridgeshire]] district around {{convert|4|mi|km}} north-east of [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]] and {{convert|10|mi|km}} north-east of [[Cambridge]].▼

▲'''Chippenham''' is a [[village]] and [[civil parish]] in [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], part of [[East Cambridgeshire]] district around {{convert|4|mi|km}} north-east of [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]] and {{convert|10|mi|km}} north-east of [[Cambridge]].

==History==

[[File:Map_of_Chippenham.jpg|thumb|Map of Chippenham]]

The parish of Chippenham covers {{convert|4300|acre|ha}} at the eastern end of Cambridgeshire. It is bordered by [[Suffolk]] to both the north (where the border follows the River Kennett) and the south (where the border follows the [[Icknield Way]]). To the east it is separated from [[Kennett, Cambridgeshire|Kennett]], and to the west there are borders with [[Fordham, Cambridgeshire|Fordham]] and [[Snailwell]], and a short border with [[Isleham]]. The present parish incorporates both the smaller medieval parish and the hamlet of Badlingham.<ref name=victoria>{{cite book|title=A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely|volume=10|dateyear=2002|pages=370-374370–374|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18911}}</ref>

Listed as ''Chipeham'' in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, the name "Chippenham" probably means "river meadow of a man called Cippa".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Chippenham.html|title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names|dateyear=2003|author=A. D. Mills}}</ref>▼

[[Chippenham Park]] was created by [[Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford]], [[Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|MP for Cambridgeshire]] and [[First Lord of the Admiralty]], who owned the estate from 1689 until his death in 1727. Russell remodelled the manor house and greatly extended the estate park which now dominates the parish to the south of the village.<ref name=victoria/>

Royalty have visited Chippenham on numerous occasions. The first was in 1578 when [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] knighted Thomas Revett, lord of the manor at the time. William Russell's bowling green was used at times by [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] in the 1640s and [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] also visited in around 1669. The Earl of Orford received [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] in 1717, and [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]] was a regular visitor while Prince of Wales in the 1870s and 1880s. [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] may also have attended shooting parties there.<ref name=victoria/>

[[Chippenham Park]] is a large country estate created by [[Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford]].<ref name=victoria/>

▲Listed as ''Chipeham'' in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, the name "Chippenham" probably means "river meadow of a man called Cippa".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Chippenham.html|title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names|date=2003|author=A. D. Mills}}</ref>

==Church==

[[File:Chippenham, St Margaret - geograph.org.uk - 3302.jpg|thumb|left|250pxupright=1.4|St Margaret's Church]]

There has been a church in Chippenham since at least the 12th century which served both Chippenham and Badlingham. The present parish church has been dedicated to [[Saint Margaret of Antioch]] since 1279, and consists of a chancel with south chapel and north vestry, an aisled nave of seven bays, and a rectangular west tower. The oldest parts of the building date from the 12th century, with the nave added in the 13th century. The tower was rebuilt in the 15th century.<ref name=victoria/>

The church has four 15th -century wall paintings that were plastered over with psalms in the 17th century, and rediscovered in the late 19th century.

[[John Gauden]], later [[Bishop of Exeter]] and [[Bishop of Worcester|Worcester]], was [[vicar]] of Chippenham in the 1630s.

[[File:St_Margaret's_church_tower.jpg|thumb|Front entrance to St Margaret's church]]

==Village life==

The village has one pub, The Tharp Arms, which was opened in 1704 on the High Street. In the 18th century it was known as the New Goat Inn after which it was renamed The Angel and then The Hope Inn before receiving its present name in 1910. There was also an outdoor beer tent listed in the village in the 1850s.<ref name=victoria/>

[[File:Tharp_Arms.jpg|thumb|The Tharp Arms]]

[[File:Chippenham-old-bakery.jpg|thumb|The old bakery building]]

The village's water pump which stands at the junction of the High Street and Snailwell Road was last used in 1948 and has an unusual cap.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pumps Cambridgeshire |url=http://www.villagepumps.org.uk/pumpsCambs.htm |access-date=9 April 2022 |website=National Register of Village Pumps}}</ref>

[[File:Water_pump_Chippenham.jpg|thumb|The water pump, Chippenham ]]

[[File:Water_pump_detail.jpg|thumb|Detail of the water pump]]

Lord Orford founded the village's first school in 1708 and by 1712 a school building had been completed opposite the church (which survives today as a house).{{citation needed|reason=when was it that it 'survives today as a house'|date=April 2022}} In 1821 additional space was added for junior children and children also attended from neighbouring [[Snailwell]]. In the mid-19th century the attendance was around 36, and after 1875 it rose steadily until there were 100 pupils in 1910. This then fell to 77 in 1919 and under 40 by the 1930s. In 1954 senior children were moved to [[Burwell, Cambridgeshire|Burwell]] and when numbers had fallen to only 25 juniors in 1978 the school closed, with the remaining children transferred to [[Isleham]].<ref>[http://www.chippenhamcambs.info/content/index.aspx?section=4&article=56 Chippenham School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402225338/http://www.chippenhamcambs.info/content/index.aspx?section=4&article=56 |date=2012-04-02 }}</ref>

A playground was built behind Tharp Way in 1980.

==Chippenham Fen==

{{Main|Chippenham Fen and Snailwell Poor's Fen}}

Chippenham Fen is a [[National nature reserve (United Kingdom)|National Nature Reserve]] and part of the Fenland Special Area of Conservation.<ref name="jncc">{{Cite web |url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUCode=UK0014782 |title=Fenland |publisher=[[JNCC]]}}</ref>

[[File:Chippenham Fen National Nature Reserve - geograph.org.uk - 189803.jpg|thumbnail|Chippenham Fen]]

==References==

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==External links==

[http://www.thetharparms.com Website for The Tharp Arms, Chippenham, Cambridgeshre]

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