CHIPPENHAM, a parliamentary and municipal borough and market-town of England, hundred of the same name, in Wiltshire, 30 miles N.N.W. of Salisbury, and 94 miles from London by the Great Western railway. It stands in a valley on the left bank of the Avon, which is here crossed by a handsome stone bridge of 22 arches. Chippenham is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors, and returns 2 members to parliament. Pop. (1851) of parliamentary borough, 6283; of municipal borough, 1707. The town consists chiefly of one well-built street more than half a mile in length, and has a spacious Gothic church, town-hall, market-house, savings-bank, literary institution, free school, a silk factory, corn-mills, tanneries, and manufactures of woollens. Market-day Friday.