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Where does "Chipping" come from?
Thursday 27 January, 2011
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Dear Spaggs,

Where does the word "Chipping" come from?


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Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, Chipping Campden in home of the Cotswold Olimpick games in Gloucestershire, or perhaps Chipping Ongar in Essex where did "Chipping" come from?

Apparently "Chipping" when used in a place name is derived from the Old English "ceping" denoting a place where a market was held and has nothing to do with the small broken pieces of rock that we associate with building and construction in our modern environment.

Chip or Chipping meaning a small piece of wood probably was first used in the 18th century and based on a derivative of the 15th century "cippian" or "cut" Its origins to describe a broken piece of stone are, however, obscure.

Even as late as 1810 James Macadam in his "Observations on the Highways of the Kingdom" refers to "Broken Stone" in his directions for repairing a roads, but does not refer to the material as "chippings".

Whilst the term may have been used earlier in the context of dressing stone masonry, our researches have struggled to find a reference to stone "chippings" being manufactured until the first decade of the twentieth century when they are recorded as having been used with tar binder as a surface dressing for roads.

The word is now, however, firmly established in the English language to describe a small often decorative broken piece of stone.

Extra Information:

For more information, please visit this related link:  Chippings and Gravel.



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