Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a small market community in the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It is noteworthy 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 component is discovered in various other communities such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury as well as Chipping (currently High) Wycombe. An abundant woollen trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden delighted in the patronage of wealthy wool vendors (see additionally woollen church), most notably William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a prominent Cotswold vacationer destination with old inns, hotels, specialist shops and also restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, developed from the smooth locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock called Cotswold stone, and flaunts a riches of great vernacular style. Much of the community centre is a Sanctuary which has assisted to protect the initial structures. The town is completion factor of the Cotswold Method, a 102-mile Long-distance path. Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olimpick Games considering that 1612. The complete ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.
