Chepping Wycombe
| Chepping Wycombe | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU905908 |
| Location: | 51°36’29"N, -0°41’50"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 14,648 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | High Wycombe |
| Postcode: | HP10 |
| Dialling code: | 01494 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Buckinghamshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wycombe |
Chepping Wycombe is a parish in the Desborough Hundred of Buckinghamshire. The ancient parish covers most of the town of High Wycombe, but the civil parish is much reduced, covering the three villages of Tylers Green, Loudwater and Flackwell Heath. The central part of the civil parish comprises extensive business and industrial development lying adjacent and underneath an elevated section of the M40 in the valley of the River Wye.
The name, Chipping derives from the Old English word cieping meaning 'market' or 'market-place'. Historically, Chepping Wycombe (or Chipping Wycombe) was the formal name of the ancient borough of High Wycombe. It was also the name of the ecclesiastical parish which extended further than the borough boundary.
Today the areas which comprised the historic borough and that of the civil parish, (the residual part of the ecclesiastical parish) together with West Wycombe constitute the majority of the present-day High Wycombe Urban Area.
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121857&c=Chepping+Wycombe&d=16&e=62&g=6404769&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1479480128709&enc=1. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
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