Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a tiny 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 same component is discovered in other communities such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping (now High) Wycombe. A rich woollen trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden delighted in the patronage of affluent wool sellers (see also woollen church), most significantly William Greville (d. 1401). Today it is a prominent Cotswold traveler location with old inns, hotels, expert shops and also dining establishments. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, constructed from the smooth locally quarried oolitic sedimentary rock referred to as Cotswold stone, and also boasts a riches of great vernacular style. Much of the community centre is a Conservation Area which has helped to protect the initial structures. The town is the end point of the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile Long-distance footpath. Chipping Campden has actually held its very own Olimpick Games because 1612. The complete ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,888.