Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a little market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable 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 aspect is discovered in various other communities such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (currently High) Wycombe. A rich woollen trading centre between Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool sellers (see additionally wool church), most notably William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a prominent Cotswold tourist location with old inns, hotels, professional stores and dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, built from the mellow locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock called Cotswold stone, and also boasts a wealth of fine vernacular style. Much of the community centre is a Conservation Area which has helped to maintain the original buildings. The town is the end factor of the Cotswold Means, a 102-mile Long-distance path. Chipping Campden has actually held its own Olimpick Games because 1612. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
