   chipping ongar is a small market town in the civil parish of ongar, in the epping forest district of the county of essex, england. it is located  east of epping,  southeast of harlow and  northwest of brentwood. ==origin of the name== the name "ongar" means "grass land". "chipping" is from old english cÄping, "a market, a market-place", akin to danish "kÃ¸bing" and swedish "kÃ¶ping"; the same element is found in other towns such as chipping norton, chipping sodbury and chipping (now high) wycombe.a.d. mills, oxford dictionary of english place-names (oxford university press, 1998), p. 83. ==history== ongar was an important market town in the medieval era, at the centre of a hundred and has the remains of a norman castle (see below). the church of england parish church, st martin's dates from the 11th century and shows signs of norman work. a small window in the chancel is believed to indicate the existence of an anchorite's cell in medieval times.http://www.stmartinongar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=17&itemid=10 the gothic revival architect c.c. rolfe added the south aisle in 1884.saint, 1970 david livingstone lived in chipping ongar on the high street in 1838. the civil parish of chipping ongar was abolished in 1965 and a new parish of ongar was created which also incorporated the former area of the greensted and shelley civil parishes.http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10245151#tab02 the parish wa
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