Chinnor
Chinnor is a large village and also civil parish in South Oxfordshire regarding 4 miles (6.4 kilometres) southeast of Thame. The village is a springtime line settlement [1] on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern cliff. Since 1932 the civil parish has actually consisted of the village of Emmington. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 5,924. Chinnor is primarily a dorm village for Thame, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and also London. Previously it had a large cement works, and before that a variety of furniture-making craftsmens. Chinnor grew 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 then mainly concentrated around the major rectangular road strategy of Station Road, Lower Road, High Street and Church Road. The hamlet of Oakley to the southwest was subsumed into the town around this time, when constructing along Oakley Road and the Mill Lane estate greater than doubled the physical size of the town.
