Chippenham, Cambridgeshire
Historical Description
Chippenham, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on the verge of the county, 2½ miles from Isleham station on the G.E.R., and 4:½ NE by N of Newmarket, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Soham. The parish includes also the hamlet of Bad-lingham. Acreage, 4301; population, 612. The manor was given in 1148 by William de Mandeville to the Knights Hospitallers, who built a preceptory on it; passed after the Dissolution to the Russells, CromwelFs connections by marriage, one of whom entertained Charles I. here; and belongs now to the Tharp family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £178. The church is a building of stone in the Gothic style, was restored in 1893 at a cost of £1700. It is rich in frescoes. There is a Congregational chapel. Chippenham Hall is a chief residence standing in a park of about 400 acres.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cambridgeshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Chippenham St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Staploe | |
Poor Law union | Newmarket |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Chippenham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chippenham (St. Margaret))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chippenham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cambridgeshire papers online:
- Cambridge Independent Press
- Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
- Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.