Chipping, Hertfordshire: Difference between revisions

From around 1200 until the mid-nineteenth century the main occupation of Chipping's residence was farming, working the dense woodland and farmland surrounding the village, whilst other villages served passing trade along [[Ermine Street]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief History of Buckland & Chipping |url=http://www.bucklandandchippingpc.org.uk/history.php |website=Buckland and Chipping Parish Council |publisher=Buckland and Chipping Parish Council |accessdate=12 August 2020}}</ref> However, Chipping has always been overshadowed by its larger neighbours of [[Buntingford]] to the south and [[Royston, Hertfordshire|Royston]] to the north, with its population remaining small, it was never large enough for the construction of a church. <ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief History of Buckland & Chipping |url=http://www.bucklandandchippingpc.org.uk/history.php |website=Buckland and Chipping Parish Council |publisher=Buckland and Chipping Parish Council |accessdate=24 August 2020}}</ref> Until the late nineteenth-century Chipping was divided between the [[parish]] of [[Therfield]] on the west side of [[Ermine Street]] and [[Buckland, Hertfordshire|Buckland]] parish on the east.<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.co.uk/books/about/The_Victoria_history_of_the_county_of_He.html?id=Ia3MDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=chipping&f=false |accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref>

 

 

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