Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has welcomed the announcement from Gloucestershire County Council that they will install a vehicular activated sign on Aston Road in Chipping Camden which display the speed of passing motorists, to persuade motorists to slow down in this residential area as a traffic calming measure.
News from Chipping Campden including Campden bulletin
The Hart Dynasty 1908 - 2008 Centenary Exhibition at Chipping Campden
Sat, 04/10/2008 - 05:50Saturday 4th October - Saturday 11th October 2008 - The Town Hall, Market Square, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire GL55 6AN
A significant exhibition of fine silver, covering a century of Guild of Handicraft work by the Hart dynasty, a guild of silversmiths working in the North Cotswolds in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.
Chipping Campden men's keep fit club endorse beer findings
Thu, 06/03/2008 - 21:48Chipping Campden men's keep fit club endorse international findings on the benefits of beer
Chipping Campden and district mens keep fit club have taken over the facilities at Chipping Campden School and more recently the sports centre every Monday evening for nearly thirty years. Some forty mature, fit local men push their bodies to the limit to achieve almost perfection in their quest to LOOK GOOD - FEEL GOOD.
Robert Dover's Olimpick games in Chipping Campden
Thu, 06/03/2008 - 21:41(From the letters section of the Chipping Campden Bulletin. Reproduced with kind permission of Jeremy Green)
Dear Jeremy,
In 2008 Beijing hosts the Olympic Games, with London to follow in 2012. But for Campden every year is "Olimpick", and in 2012 the Cotswolds Olimpick Games will celebrate their 400th anniversary.
The report on flooding in Chipping Campden, 20/21 July 2007
Fri, 21/12/2007 - 18:18(From the Chipping Campden Bulletin. Reproduced with kind permission of Jeremy Green)
Report by D J Atkinson
Preamble
Chipping Campden is peculiarly susceptible to flooding when prolonged heavy rain or sudden thaws occur in an already sodden catchment area. To a large extent this is due to the size and peculiar character of the catchment area, most of which drains into the river upstream of the Care Home and Guild site and Sheep Street It is also due to the confinement of The Cam's channel and choke points through the town.
In the recent past, serious floods occurred in the wake of long periods of bad weather affecting the region usually in winter, 1947 and others, but also in July 1968. Park Road has suffered from lesser floods periodically, especially in the 50s and 60s, the last in spring 1993. Obviously drainage has become a much more concerning problem for the town over the last century and particularly over the last 50 years with much new building (spreading and infilling), property improvement, the raising of road levels and much more hard standing. The situation has also worsened due to changes in land use, farming methods and land drainage in the area.
A history of the Court Barn, Chipping Campden
Thu, 20/12/2007 - 19:24(From the noticeboard section of the Chipping Campden Bulletin. Reproduced with kind permission of Jeremy Green)
Readers will be aware that Court Barn in Church Street has been renovated by the Guild of Handicraft Trust and has been transformed whilst still retaining its present external appearance. It is the site of an exhibition, meeting room and study centre celebrating the craftsmen who have lived in Campden and surrounding towns and villages since the beginning of the last century. There will be exhibits devoted to C R Ashbee and his Guild of Handicraft, to FL.Griggs, Alec Miller, Paul Woodroffe, the Harts and Robert Welch; and to others, like Gordon Russell and Katharine Adams from Broadway and the potters Michael Cardew and Ray Finch from Winchcombe.
This article, however, is about the barn itself. It stands on the edge of the grounds of Old Campden House and was built about 300 years ago. How ever did it come to intrude into the gardens of that magnificent house? After Sir Baptist Hicks's new manor house was burned to the ground in 1645, its grounds and gardens and yards were gradually turned over to agricultural use. There is a deed dated 1691 by which the Hon. Susanna Noel, the mother of the six year old 3rd Earl of Gainsborough, leased it to Mary Rutter, a widow.
Chipping Campden WI
Sat, 15/12/2007 - 15:59The November meeting of Chipping Campden WI always includes the AGM so we usually whiz through the ordinary monthly meeting, minutes, reports and so on, to get to the AGM as quickly as possible Afterwards we normally have a short talk before refreshments. This year was different. We did it the other way round!
The charming speaker had brought a presentation from the Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Association and Cheltenham Animal Shelter. Miss Jenner told us of the surprisingly wide field of activities that come under that organisation.
The spirit of Christmas in Campden
Thu, 08/11/2007 - 20:31The Spirit of Christmas fund raising evening will run from 4pm till 8pm on Tuesday 4th December encouraging people to raise funds for charity while enjoying the traditional spirit of Christmas with festive stalls, Father Christmas, carol singers and a nativity tableau to name but a few of the event's attractions.
Chipping Campden and Charringworth - Sale of Lordships of the Manor
Thu, 08/11/2007 - 17:08Thursday 15th November 14.00 - Auction in London of these two Lordships of the Manor
Lordships of the Manor are among the oldest titles in England and pre-date the Norman Conquest, begun by William I at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
The Manor was the pivot of the Feudal System and by the reign of Edward the Confessor(1042-66) the Lord of the Manor was the most important person in village affairs. The Domesday Book compiled in 1086 listed 13,418 Manors and their owners.
Slum Survivor National Weekend at Chipping Campden
Wed, 24/10/2007 - 13:42
Friday 26th October - Sunday 28th October Chipping Campden town car park
Slum Survivor is a national campaign organised by the charity Soul Action. Slum Survivor is a challenge to spend a weekend in the way that a billion spend a lifetime.
