the "anglo-saxon chronicle" records the town as cippanhamme: this could refer to cippa who had his hamm, an enclosure in a river meadow. an alternative theory suggests that the name is derived from the anglo-saxon word "ceap", meaning market. the name is recorded variously as cippanhamm (878), cepen (1042), cheppeham (1155), chippenham (1227), shippenham (1319) and chippyngham (1541). in john speed's map of wiltshire (1611), the name is spelt both "chippenham" (for the hundred) and "chipnam" (for the town). (there is another chippenham, cambridgeshire as well as cippenham, berkshire near slough.) from chapman's harbour. it might share toponomy with copenhagen (københavn – "market harbour". older name: køpmannæhafn, "chapman's harbour" ). in swedish, köpenhamn (pronounced "shopenham"). in norwegian, kjøpenhavn (pronounced "shiopenhavn")