Chipping Campden

Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswold's, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It dates from the 14th century and has a long and wide High Street with a selection of shops, pubs, and restaurants.
The name Chipping is from Old English cēping, meaning a marketplace. Other towns in the area also use the name Chipping Norton and Chipping Sodbury. In the Middle Ages, the town became wealthy through the wool trade, but there was a settlement here in the 7th century. The wool from the long-backed Cotswold Lion sheep was prized across Europe. William Grevel, the son of a local man, became Campden's (and, by reputation, one of England's) most successful wool merchants. In about 1380, he built a new house in the High Street (Grevel House) that still stands today. The Woolstaplers Hall on the other side of the High Street was built in the 14th century by Robert Calf and illustrated how Campden had become an important collecting point for fleece, later sold to Flemish and Italian clothiers.
Chipping Campden has 256 historically listed buildings, and in the early 20th century, the town became known as a centre for the Cotswold Arts and Crafts Movement. We came across the home of Graham Green. The cottage where he achieved his first commercial success in writing Stamboul Train, due in no small part to the sale of film rights. However, the book's success was diluted by the threat of a libel suit by J.B. Priestley, which demanded urgent, last-minute action to be taken by Greene to change certain parts of the novel. The red telephone box in the village that you will see in the video played an essential element in the issue.
We venture into the garden to commemorate Ernest Henry (Chinese) Wilson, born in Chipping Campden in 1876. He was one of the greatest plant collectors in the early part of the last century.
We come across the restored cart wash opposite the Almshouses, built by Sir Baptist Hicks and dated around the early 1800's. It allowed carts to wash their wheels and stand in water, so wooden wheels could expand in dry weather and remove the mud in bad weather. If wheels dried out, the spokes loosened, and the iron tyres could fall off.
The market hall in the High Street was built to provide shelter from the elements for merchants and farmers selling goods-the latter-day supermarket. The side walls were open to allow light, and customers, access to the market stalls. The floor of the market hall was made of simple cobbles, now worn smooth by the passage of time and thousands of feet. The panel between the two east gables displays Sir Baptist Hicks' coat of arms. The building is listed Grade I for its historical importance. In the 1940's, the hall was threatened with the sale to an American. So local people raised the money to purchase the property and gave it to the National Trust.
In 1613 Sir Baptist Hicks began work on his house built in the latest fashion with intricate gardens, but thirty years later, the Royalists destroyed it while withdrawing from the town; only the shell remained. Today just a single fragment is left standing. We managed to get a shot of it from over the wall. We couldn't fly our drone due to a temporary exclusion zone for a gliding event. The smaller buildings escaped and are still there, together with the raised walks of the garden. The most prominent is the gateway and east and west banqueting houses.
The music used is from the 'Royalty Free Music Movies & Videos Backgrounds'. From the Royalty Free Music Club (iTunes)
Filmed on the 19th June 2021 using iPhone 11pro, Nikon 7200 &7500.
1:26 The gateway
1:36 East banqueting house
1:49 West banqueting house
1:55 The fragment of the old house
2:10 Cart wash
2:35 Almshouses
5:15 The market hall
10:00 The home of Graham Green
10:18 The red telephone box.
11:12 The red telephone box.
13:20 The Woolstaplers
15:06 Ernest Henry (Chinese) Wilson garden