Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a little market community in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its elegant 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 aspect is located in other communities such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (currently High) Wycombe. A rich woollen trading centre in the center Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy woollen vendors (see additionally woollen church), most significantly William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a prominent Cotswold visitor destination with old inns, hotels, specialist shops and also dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone structures, built from the smooth locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock known as Cotswold rock, and flaunts a wide range of great vernacular style. Much of the community centre is a Sanctuary which has actually aided to protect the original structures. The town is completion factor of the Cotswold Method, a 102-mile Long-distance footpath. Chipping Campden has actually held its own Olimpick Games considering that 1612. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
