CHIPPENHAM, a village and a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge. The village stands on the verge of the county, 3½ miles NNW of Kennet r. station, and 4½ NE by N of Newmarket; and has a post office under Soham. The parish includes also the hamlet of Badlingham. Acres, 4, 205. Real property, £4, 248. Pop., 796. Houses, 153. 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, Cromwell's relations, one of whom entertained Charles I. here; and belongs now to John Tharp, Esq. All the land belongs to the same proprietor; and much of it has been planted. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £240.* Patron, John Tharp, Esq. The church is good; and there are an endowed school and charities £45.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))