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Chigwell, city (1991 pop. 51,575), Essex, SE England. It is a residential suburb of London. Portions of Epping and Hainault forests are in the outlying district. The Chigwell public school was founded in 1629.
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Chigwell is a civil parish and town in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located 11.6 miles north east of Charing Cross. It is served by two London Underground stations and has a London area code.
According to P. H. Reaney's Place-Names of Essex, the standard guide to etymology in the county, the name means 'Cicca's well', Cicca being an Anglo-Saxon personal name. In medieval sources the name appears with a wide variety of spellings including "Cinghe uuella" http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45468 and Chikewelle". Folk etymology has sought to derive the name from a lost 'king's well', supposed to have been to the...more »
