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CHIPPING NORTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NORTON , a See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:borough in the See also:Banbury See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Oxfordshire, See also:England, 26 m. N.W. of See also:Oxford by a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western railway. ' For the Chippewa See also:Indians see See also:OJIBWAY, of which the word is a popular See also:adaptation. Pop. (1901) 3780. It lies on the steep flank of a See also:hill, and consists mainly of one very wide See also:street. The See also:church of St See also:Mary the Virgin, See also:standing on the See also:lower See also:part of the slope, is a See also:fine See also:building of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, the hexagonal See also:porch and the See also:clerestory being See also:good examples of the later See also:style. The town has woollen and See also:glove factories, breweries and an agricultural See also:trade. It is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 4456 acres. Chipping Norton (Chepyngnorton) was probably of some importance in Saxon times. At the Domesday Survey it was held in See also:chief by Ernulf de Hesding; it was assessed at fifteen hides, and comprised three See also:mills.

It returned two members to See also:

parliament as a borough in 1302 and 1304-1305, but was not represented after this date, and was not considered to be a borough in 1316. The first and only See also:charter of See also:incorporation was granted by See also:James I., in 16o8; it established a See also:common See also:council consisting of 2 bailiffs and 12 burgesses; a common clerk, 2 justices of the See also:peace, and 2 serjeants-at-See also:mace; and a See also:court of See also:record every See also:Monday. In 1205 See also:William Fitz-Alan was granted a four days' See also:fair at the feast of the Inven- tion of the See also:Cross; and in 1276 See also:Roger, See also:earl of See also:March, was granted a four days' fair at the feast of St BarnabasW In the reign of See also:Henry VI. the market was held on Wednesday, and a fair was held at the See also:Translation of St See also:Thomas See also:Becket. These continued to be held in the reign of James I., who annulled the former two fairs, and granted fairs at the feasts of St See also:Mark, St See also:Matthew, St See also:Bartholomew, and SS. See also:Simon and See also:Jude.

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