Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a tiny market community in the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It is significant for its sophisticated terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. ("Chipping" is from Old English ceping, "a market, a market-place"; the very same element is discovered in various other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury as well as Chipping (now High) Wycombe. An abundant wool trading centre between Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of well-off woollen merchants (see also woollen church), most especially William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a prominent Cotswold visitor destination with old inns, hotels, expert stores and dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured sedimentary rock structures, developed from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone called Cotswold rock, and boasts a wealth of great vernacular design. Much of the town centre is a Sanctuary which has actually helped to preserve the original structures. The town is completion point of the Cotswold Method, a 102-mile Long-distance walkway. Chipping Campden has actually organized its very own Olimpick Games considering that 1612. The complete ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
