Chinnor is a village in South Oxfordshire. There has been settlement in the area since the Iron Age, the name Chinnor may derive from the Saxon for "Ceona's Slope". Chinnor existed for sure in the late Saxon age, records of the village date from the reign of Edward the Confessor. Later Chinnor was owned by the Earl of Winchester and until the late Middle Ages the de Ferrers family.
Chinnor remained a small village for centuries, only seeing a spark in growth in the 1960s. The population more than doubled in size between 1951 and 1971. A major employer in the area was the Chinnor Cement & Lime Limited Company, this finally closed down in 1999.
Chinnor's parish church is St Andrew which dates from 1160 though much of the church today from the 13th and 14th centuries. Chinnor station is the HQ of the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway preserved line, the original station closing in 1961, re-opening in 1994.
