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 exact same element is discovered in various other towns 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 woollen vendors (see likewise woollen church), most especially William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a popular Cotswold visitor destination with old inns, hotels, specialist stores and dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone structures, developed from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone referred to as Cotswold rock, as well as flaunts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture. Much of the community centre is a Conservation Area which has actually helped to maintain the original buildings. The town is completion point of the Cotswold Means, a 102-mile Long-distance path. Chipping Campden has actually organized its own Olimpick Games considering that 1612. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
