Chinnor is a big town and also civil parish in South Oxfordshire concerning 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Thame. The village is a spring line negotiation [1] on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern cliff. Because 1932 the civil parish has included the village of Emmington. The 2011 Census recorded the church's population as 5,924. Chinnor is primarily a dorm village for Thame, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and also London. Formerly it had a large cement jobs, as well as before that a variety of furniture-making craftsmens. Chinnor expanded most promptly in the 1960s-- from a population of 1,961 in the 1951 Census to 4,471 in the 1971 Census. The village was after that greatly concentrated around the main rectangle-shaped street strategy of Station , Lower Road, High Street and also Church Road. The hamlet of Oakley to the southwest was subsumed right into the town around this moment, when building along Oakley Road as well as the Mill Lane estate more than increased the physical dimension of the town.