Chipping
See also: chipping
English
Etymology
From Old English ċīeping (“market, marketplace”). Compare Swedish köping ("market"). Chipping, Cheapside, and cheap all reflect ancestry from Old English ceapian, concerning trading in markets.
Proper noun
Chipping
- A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
- A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243). [1]
- Obsolete form of 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...
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192: