Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a small market community in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its stylish 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 located in various other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and also Chipping (now High) Wycombe. A rich woollen trading centre between Ages, Chipping Campden appreciated the patronage of well-off wool vendors (see additionally wool church), most especially William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a preferred Cotswold tourist destination with old inns, hotels, professional stores and restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, constructed from the smooth locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock called Cotswold rock, and also flaunts a wealth of great vernacular style. Much of the town centre is a Sanctuary which has aided to maintain the initial buildings. The community is completion point of the Cotswold Method, a 102-mile Long-distance walkway. Chipping Campden has actually held its very own Olimpick Games considering that 1612. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
