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National Trust - Market Hall

The towns name, Chipping Campden comes from the old English word, Ceping, which means a market or market place, and Campden comes from the old Saxon word Campaign-denu, or Campadene, which meant an enclosure of cultivated land.

his region of the Cotswolds is that of open countryside, with gentle rolling slopes, dotted with a few typical honey coloured dwellings standing along narrow lanes, picturesque and productive

a pleasure to drive along as we headed for the town itsel

We arrived along Park Road, although also known as Watery Lane, due to its being flooded at times from the river Cam, or water pouring down off the hills. The lane more than likely started off as a dirt track from town on its way to the mill at Westington, and known at the time of the doomsday book of 1086. Campden

Later, it became Park Road, but still in danger of flooding, and even in July of 2007, some of the cottages were under 3 or 4 feet of water. There were a number of thatched cottages along Park Road in the 1920’s, and certainly Robins cottage was thatched until a fire took it in 1954, but the only thatched house left today is Brooklyn

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t still has its historical courtyard of a cobbled archway, beautifully kept today.

A short drive of a few yards Park Road then becomes Lower High Street before you need to take the cobbled street leading off to your left

and passing the Cotswold houses along this narrow lane you reach the Market car park

Taking your scooter or wheelchair, ride alongside the hall with its clock tower

on the narrow lane behind the car park, it’s more attractive this way, and reach the old Market Hall

A Wealthy trader Sir Baptist Hicks became one of the towns benefactors, and he arranged for the market hall to be built in 1627, but although the town was a wool trading town, the market hall was not used for the wool trade, but it was rather built for the aid of local women to use as shelter when selling their butter, cheese, bread and pickled eggs, thus keeping their goods dry when it rained, and of course allowed them somewhere to have a little chat. No one knows when its use changed, but from 1850 and later it was used for storing carts.

During the 1900’s they had to re-roof the hall

and they also built the balustrades between the arches

From the hall it is well worth moving ahead along that narrow lane

Website address

National Trust - Market Hall

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National Trust - Market Hall

The towns name, Chipping Campden comes from the old English word, Ceping, which means a market or market place, and Campden comes from the old Saxon word Campaign-denu, or Campadene, which meant an enclosure of cultivated land.

his region of the Cotswolds is that of open countryside, with gentle rolling slopes, dotted with a few typical honey coloured dwellings standing along narrow lanes, picturesque and productive

a pleasure to drive along as we headed for the town itsel

We arrived along Park Road, although also known as Watery Lane, due to its being flooded at times from the river Cam, or water pouring down off the hills. The lane more than likely started off as a dirt track from town on its way to the mill at Westington, and known at the time of the doomsday book of 1086. Campden

Later, it became Park Road, but still in danger of flooding, and even in July of 2007, some of the cottages were under 3 or 4 feet of water. There were a number of thatched cottages along Park Road in the 1920’s, and certainly Robins cottage was thatched until a fire took it in 1954, but the only thatched house left today is Brooklyn

ST CATHERINE’s CHURCH

t still has its historical courtyard of a cobbled archway, beautifully kept today.

A short drive of a few yards Park Road then becomes Lower High Street before you need to take the cobbled street leading off to your left

and passing the Cotswold houses along this narrow lane you reach the Market car park

Taking your scooter or wheelchair, ride alongside the hall with its clock tower

on the narrow lane behind the car park, it’s more attractive this way, and reach the old Market Hall

A Wealthy trader Sir Baptist Hicks became one of the towns benefactors, and he arranged for the market hall to be built in 1627, but although the town was a wool trading town, the market hall was not used for the wool trade, but it was rather built for the aid of local women to use as shelter when selling their butter, cheese, bread and pickled eggs, thus keeping their goods dry when it rained, and of course allowed them somewhere to have a little chat. No one knows when its use changed, but from 1850 and later it was used for storing carts.

During the 1900’s they had to re-roof the hall

and they also built the balustrades between the arches

From the hall it is well worth moving ahead along that narrow lane

Website address

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