Chipping Norton is a

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, in the state of

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. Chipping Norton is 27 kilometres south-west of the

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, in the

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of the City of Liverpool and is part of the

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region.

History

Aboriginal culture

There are two traditional custodians of the

Chipping Norton Lake Chipping Norton Lake is a artificial lake and regional park located in the Sydney suburb of , New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the Georges River system. Chipping Norton Lake is managed by City of Liverpool (New South Wales), Liverpool ...

area – the Tharawal people, which inhabited the southern side of the

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, and the Darug people to the north and west of the River.

White settlement

Chipping Norton was a farming area throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, named after an old English village by

William Alexander Long William Alexander Long (28 July 1839 – 30 November 1915) was a race-horse owner and politician in New South Wales, Colonial Treasurer in 1877. Long was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of William Long (1797–1876) and his second wife ...

. Long was born in Sydney in 1839, and travelled to England to study law, and later lived in

Chipping Norton Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Banbury and north-west of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the civil parish population as ...

(Oxfordshire). He bought up a number of former land grants in the area at the turn of the twentieth century and his homestead 'Chipping Norton'. The horse stud on part of his property produced many fine young horses. He died in 1915 and in 1919 the government bought his estate and subdivided it into farming blocks for soldiers returning from the First World War. Thomas Moore, another prominent early settler, was granted waterfront land that is now part of the park. 'The Homestead' within the reserve grounds was built in the 1880s. Chipping Norton Post Office opened on 1 September 1920 and closed in 1974. As farming activities declined, the rich topsoil and underlying sand was mined. After 20 years of mining, the riverbanks were packed with dangerous pits and eroded banks. In 1977 the Chipping Norton Lakes Authority was set up to rehabilitate the area into parkland.

Heritage listings

Chipping Norton has a heritage-listed site: * Charlton Avenue: The Homestead Image:Chipping Norton Homestead 1.JPG, The Homestead Image:Chipping Norton Homestead 2.JPG, The Homestead windmill

Population

At the 2016 census, Chipping Norton had a population of 9,001 people. The most common ancestries were Australian (17.5%), English (15.1%), Italian (6.7%), Lebanese (6.0%) and Vietnamese (5.7%). 63.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Vietnam 4.5%, Lebanon 2.7%, Italy 2.2%, China 1.9% and New Zealand 1.4%. 54.4% of people only spoke English at home, compared to the national average of 72.7%, with other languages including Arabic (9.0%), Vietnamese (6.9%), Greek (5.4%), Italian (3.1%) and Mandarin (2.2%). The most common responses for religion were Catholic 32.6%, No Religion 14.8%, Anglican 12.1% and Eastern Orthodox 10.4%.

Sport and recreation

and Lake Moore are the main recreational centres of Chipping Norton. They feature parks, walkways, barbecues and scenery. There are many other parks across the suburb.

Schools

Chipping Norton has four schools. They are

Chipping Norton Public School Chipping may refer to: Places England Chipping is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, probably derived from , an Old English word meaning 'market', although the meaning may alternatively derive from (or via) the Medieval English wo ...

Newbridge Heights Public School Newbridge Heights Public School (NHPS) is a public school in Chipping Norton, New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivi ...

Moorebank High School Moorebank High School (MHS) is a government-funded co-educational partially academically selective secondary day school, located in Chipping Norton, a suburb in the Liverpool district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school was loca ...

and St Joseph's Catholic School.St Josephs, Moorebank
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References

External links

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