Chinnor is a huge town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire regarding 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Thame. The town is a spring line settlement [1] on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern cliff. Given that 1932 the civil parish has consisted of the village of Emmington. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 5,924. Chinnor is primarily a dorm room village for Thame, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and London. Formerly it had a big cement works, and also before that a number of furniture-making craftsmens. Chinnor grew most rapidly in the 1960s-- from a population of 1,961 in the 1951 Census to 4,471 in the 1971 Census. The village was after that greatly concentrated around the major rectangular road plan of Station , Lower Road, High Street and also Church Road. The community of Oakley to the southwest was subsumed right into the village around this moment, when constructing along Oakley Roadway as well as the Mill Lane estate greater than doubled the physical size of the town.