Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It is noteworthy for its classy terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. ("Chipping" is from Old English ceping, "a market, a market-place"; the same component is found in various other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (currently High) Wycombe. An abundant woollen trading centre between Ages, Chipping Campden appreciated the patronage of well-off wool merchants (see likewise wool church), most especially William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a prominent Cotswold vacationer location with old inns, hotels, expert stores and dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone structures, constructed from the mellow locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock known as Cotswold stone, and also flaunts a wide range of great vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a Conservation Area which has actually helped to maintain the original structures. The community is completion point of the Cotswold Means, a 102-mile Long-distance footpath. Chipping Campden has organized its own Olimpick Games because 1612. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
