Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a little market town in the Cotswold district 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 same component is discovered in other communities such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and also Chipping (currently High) Wycombe. A rich woollen trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden delighted in the patronage of rich woollen merchants (see likewise wool church), most especially William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a preferred Cotswold vacationer location with old inns, hotels, specialist stores and dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone structures, built from the smooth locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock referred to as Cotswold stone, and flaunts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture. Much of the town centre is a Conservation Area which has actually helped to preserve the original structures. The town is completion factor of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile Long-distance footpath. Chipping Campden has held its very own Olimpick Games because 1612. The complete ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
