Chippenham, an ancient municipal borough (mainly one well-built street) in Wiltshire, on the Avon, here crossed by a bridge of twenty-two arches, 13 miles NE. of Bath. It lost its last parliamentary member in 1885. Pop. 4618.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 198
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