Chinnor is a big town and also civil parish in South Oxfordshire concerning 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Thame. The village is a springtime line settlement [1] on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern escarpment. Given that 1932 the civil parish has actually consisted of the town of Emmington. The 2011 Census recorded the church's population as 5,924. Chinnor is mostly a dorm room town for Thame, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and London. Previously it had a huge concrete jobs, as well as before that a variety of furniture-making craftsmens. Chinnor expanded most swiftly 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 main rectangle-shaped street strategy of Station Road, Lower Road, High Street and also Church Road. The hamlet of Oakley to the southwest was subsumed right into the village around this moment, when developing along Oakley Road and also the Mill Lane estate more than doubled the physical dimension of the town.