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  • We have a lane freshly anointed Goatsbeard and another called Chipping Sparrow, presumably in commemoration of the exciting local prevalence of one of the most common types of our most common bird.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jacob Richler 2010

  • It was Chippy, as everybody calls the Chipping Sparrow, the smallest of the family.

    Burgess Bird Book for Children 1919

  • She started Shine Productions and she and her husband became firm members of the exclusive social group known as the Chipping Norton set, socialising with the Prime Minister and other famous faces.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mark Hughes 2011

  • Cameron and Clarkson are very close - the prime minister appeared as "the Stig" for Clarkson's 50th birthday party - and are part of the so-called Chipping Norton set, which includes, or at least included, the PR man Matthew Freud and his wife Elisabeth Murdoch, former news international chief executive Rebekah Brooks, and her husband, the racehorse trainer Charlie, all of whom live nearby.

    The Guardian World News Allegra Stratton 2011

  • She started Shine Productions and she and her husband became firm members of the exclusive social group known as the Chipping Norton set, socialising with the Prime Minister and other famous faces.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mark Hughes 2011

  • Another may open on the edge of Chipping Norton, overlooking the home of Jeremy Clarkson.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • Kingham, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire (01608 658 327).

    Restaurant review: the Kingham Plough Jay Rayner 2010

  • In particular, David Starkey, teaching history and randomly insulting a boy about his weight, came across as Captain Mainwaring meets Stalin by way of Chipping Norton – getting meaner, more pompous and dictatorial the more he wasn't automatically "respected".

    If only John Galliano's hate rant was a one-off | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • If the Chipping Norton village fete wasn't already difficult enough for David Cameron after threatening to sell off the forests and falling out with all the local News International executives, this bill will surely see him buried under thrown pies.

    The profit motive should not shape the country | Observer editorial 2011

  • Chipping away at that logic is a good place to start?

    ProWomanProLife » Abortion is not pro-woman, part 2 2010

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