Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a little market community in the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It is remarkable 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 exact same aspect is located in various other communities such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury as well as Chipping (now High) Wycombe. An abundant woollen trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of rich wool sellers (see likewise wool church), most notably William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a preferred Cotswold tourist location with old inns, hotels, expert shops and also dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, developed from the smooth locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock known as Cotswold stone, and also flaunts a wide range of great vernacular style. Much of the town centre is a Sanctuary which has actually assisted to preserve the initial structures. The town is the end point of the Cotswold Means, a 102-mile Long-distance footpath. Chipping Campden has hosted its own Olimpick Games considering that 1612. The overall ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.