Chepping Wycombe
Chepping Wycombe | |
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Green Dragon, Flackwell Heath, 2010 | |
Location within Buckinghamshire | |
Population | 14,455 [1] 14,648 (2011 Census)[2] |
OS grid reference | SU905908 |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | High Wycombe |
Postcode district | HP10 |
Dialling code | 01494 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Chepping Wycombe is a
The name is a variant of earlier Chipping,
The ancient parish of Chepping Wycombe was split in 1866, with the part inside the borough becoming a separate civil parish called "Wycombe" or "Wycombe Borough", leaving the reduced parish of Chepping Wycombe covering the more rural areas outside the borough.
Today the areas which comprised the historic borough and that of the civil parish, (the residual part of the ecclesiastical parish) together with
References
- ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Chipping", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. II (1st ed.), Edinburgh: Colin Macfarquhar, 1771.
- ^ Youngs, Frederic A. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Volume 1: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. 43.
- ^ Vision of Britain: Chepping Wycombe AP/CP[permanent dead link]
- ^ Vision of Britain website: Chepping Wycombe CP[permanent dead link]