Chippenham, Cambridgeshire

Description
Chippenham, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on the verge of the county, 2 1/2 miles from Isleham station on the G.E.R., and 4 3/4 NE by N of Newmarket, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Soham. The parish includes also the hamlet of Badlingham. Acreage, 4301; population, 612. The manor was given in 1148 by William de Mandeville to the Knights Hospitallers, who built a preceptory on it; passed after the Dissolution to the Russells, Cromwells connections by marriage, one of whom entertained Charles I. here; and belongs now to the Tharp family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £178. The church is a building of stone in the Gothic style, was restored in 1893 at a cost of £1700. It is rich in frescoes. There is a Congregational chapel. Chippenham Hall is a chief residence standing in a park of about 400 acres.