Chipping Campden, Cotswold District of Gloucestershire Magnet

Chipping Campden, Cotswold District of Gloucestershire Chipping Campden is one of the loveliest small towns in the Cotswolds and a gilded masterpiece of limestone and craftsmanship. The main street curves in a shallow arc lined with a succession of ancient houses each grafted to the next but each with its own distinctive embellishments. Pevsner described Chipping Campden as ‘the best piece of townscape in Gloucestershire, arguably one of the best in England’. As the name suggests ("Chipping" means market or market place from the old English "Ceping"). Chipping Campden was one of the most important of the medieval wool towns and famous throughout Europe. This legacy of fame and prosperity is everything that give the town its c...