Place:Chipping Ongar, Essex, England

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NameChipping Ongar
Alt namesAngrasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 101
Chipping-Ongarsource: Family History Library Catalog
Ongarsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeTown
Coordinates51.717°N 0.25°E
Located inEssex, England
See alsoOngar Rural, Essex, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1955
Epping and Ongar Rural, Essex, Englandrural district in which it was located 1955-1965
Ongar, Essex, Englandcivil parish into which it was merged in 1965
Epping Forest (district), Essex, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Chipping Ongar is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of the county of Essex, England. It is located east of Epping, southeast of Harlow and northwest of Brentwood. In 2020 the built-up area had an estimated population of 6420. In 1961 the parish had a population of 1673.

The civil parish of Chipping Ongar was abolished in 1965 and a new parish of Ongar was created which also incorporated the former area of the Greensted and Shelley civil parishes. The parish was part of Epping and Ongar Rural District until 1974 when it became part of the Epping Forest District.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Chipping Ongar.

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