Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswolds. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. A rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants. Today it is a popular Cotswold tourist destination with old inns, hotels, specialist shops and restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, built from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture.
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Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswolds. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. A rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants.
Pictured is the Grade I-listed Grevel's House on the west side of the High Street. According to British Listed Buildings this is thought to have been a medieval barn, possibly 14th century, that was converted to a dwelling in the late 16th century when the 'Grevil bay' was imported. It is a complex and enigmatic building - not necessarily the home of William Grevil; the 'flower of the wool merchants of all England' who died circa 1400.
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This delightful small town in the Cotswolds is one of my favourites. The houses and shops on the main street are mainly 17th and 18th century and built from the lovely butter-coloured Cotswold limestone.
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It was five years since we had last visited Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds, and I had been meaning to go again. This time we were heading across country towards Bath and the traffic in and around Stow-on-the-Wold was horrendous. So we took to the country lanes and found ourselves within a couple of miles of Lower Slaughter. We decided to call in and take a few shots.
Lower Slaughter is quite simply one of the prettiest villages that I have come across. With its beautiful Cotswold stone cottages, its shallow river, old watermill and low footbridges it reminds me of Bourton on the Water, which lies just over a mile away, though without the crowds of visitors.
There is a Grade II-listed water mill, dating from the early 1800s, at the western end of the village. It has an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. The building is now a museum having last been used commercially as a mill in 1958.
The building in the centre with the three dormer windows is Grade II-listed and dates from the early 1700s. The little stone footbridge (Up Stream Bridge) is also Grade II-listed and is thought to date from a similar period.
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Moreton-in-Marsh, like neighbouring Stow-on-the-Wold, is renowned for its antique shops and art dealers. Most of the buildings are in beautiful butter-coloured Cotswold stone, though this one is brick, suggesting it is less old than most of its neighbours.
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