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==History==
=== Early history ===
The current settlement of Chipping first emerged along the former Roman Road [[Ermine Street]] as the manor of Pope's Hall (now Chipping Hall) then a part of Buckland village, as mentioned in
[[File:Moat in Burhill Wood, Chipping.png|thumb|left|195px|Moat in Burhill Wood (1897)]]
Chipping as an independent settlement to Buckland developed around 1220 as ''New Cheping'' (later becoming New Chipping), due to its strategic location along Ermine Street as a final stop-off for passing traffic before confronting several steep hills whilst travelling between London and York, and later, London and Cambridge.<ref>{{cite book |last1=William |first1=Page |title=The Victoria history of the county of Hertford |date=1902 |publisher=University of London, Institute of Historical Research |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia3MDwAAQBAJ&q=chipping |accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref>
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===The English Civil War===
In April 1643, during the second year of the English Civil War, a skirmish occurred in Chipping, which was situated along the worst section of Ermine Street. A group of Parliamentarians were sent by Oliver Cromwell to collect treasures from Cambridge, including a new helmet ordered by Cromwell as he found his old helmet “ill-set”.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kingston |first1=Alfred |title=Hertfordshire During the Great Civil War and the Long Parliament |date=1894 |publisher=Hertfordshire Record Society |location=London |pages=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nALAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> When passing through Chipping they were “set upon by a Royalist party with so much vigour, and evidently superior numbers that while the fight was proceeding some of the attacking party carried on with most of the baggage”.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kingston |first1=Alfred |title=Hertfordshire During the Great Civil War and the Long Parliament |date=1894 |publisher=Hertfordshire Record Society |location=London |pages=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nALAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> After much fighting, the Parliamentarians were able to beat off the Royalist assault and escape with
One Parliamentarian at the skirmish later said, “We went up with the treasure; got sadly mauled coming back by ruffians at Chipping, but lost near all our luggage”.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kingston |first1=Alfred |title=Hertfordshire During the Great Civil War and the Long Parliament |date=1894 |publisher=Hertfordshire Record Society |location=London |pages=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nALAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> On the delivery of his new helmet, Cromwell commended the victories’ party.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kingston |first1=Alfred |title=Hertfordshire During the Great Civil War and the Long Parliament |date=1894 |publisher=Hertfordshire Record Society |location=London |pages=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nALAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> With the Chipping helmet becoming the first of
=== After 1700 ===
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Chipping also includes the [[manor house]] of Chipping Hall (formerly Pope's Hall), with the current hall dating from the early eighteenth-century, the main hall, dovecot and walled gardens are constructed in early [[Georgian architecture]] from red brick.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pope's Hall / Chipping Hall And Garden Walls |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/08803/16 |website=Historic England |publisher=Historic England |accessdate=24 August 2020}}</ref> The manor of Pope's Hall was inherited by [[Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence]] from his wife [[Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster]] after her death in 1363.<ref>{{cite book |last1=William |first1=Page |title=The Victoria history of the county of Hertford |date=1902 |publisher=University of London, Institute of Historical Research |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia3MDwAAQBAJ&q=chipping |accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref> On the north side of Chipping Hall is a large eighteenth-century farmyard, once a part of Chipping Hall farm, it was sold and converted into housing around 2007.
Chipping also includes a former Congregational Chapel which was constructed in 1844 and a former Mission Room constructed in 1878 for a cost of £380, both are now in private ownership.<ref>{{cite web |title=Independent Chapel (Former), Ermine StreeChipping now called Mission Hall |url=https://hertfordshirechurches.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/independent-chapel-former-ermine-street-chipping-now-called-mission-hall/ |website=Hertfordshire Churches in
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