CASE STUDY: Chipping Campden

Question 1

Where is Chipping Campden?

Answer 1

In Gloucesterishire, North cotswolds, 26 miles from Cheltnham

Question 2

What % of residents are white?

Answer 2

98.7%

Question 3

How many times fewer is the proportion of black people in Chipping Campden compared to the UK?

Answer 3

4 times

Question 4

How many times fewer is the proportion of Asian people in Chipping Campden compared to the UK?

Answer 4

10 times

Question 5

How has the population of Chipping Campden changed over time?

Answer 5

Decreased around world wars, but over time has stayed relatively similar, little increase or decrease

Question 6

What proportion of the population are elderly?

Answer 6

1/3

Question 7

WHat is infrastructure like in Chipping Campden?

Answer 7

Little infrastructure, and B roads are the only available routes to nearby towns Evesham, Cheltenham, and Broadway

Question 8

What is vegeation like in the area?

Answer 8

Largely grassland and woodland with most cpmmon trees being Elm, Ash and Beech

Question 9

What was the town known for in it early history?

Answer 9

Wool in 13th century

Question 10

WHat influence did William Grevel have?

Answer 10

Influential wool trader, designed many of the buildings

Question 11

WHat was the market hall originally used for?

Answer 11

Selling dairy and poultry, a gift from Baptist Hicks

Question 12

What did the town become involved in after wool trading died out?

Answer 12

The Arts and Crafts movement

Question 13

Who was Robert Ashbee?

Answer 13

A silversmith, set up his workshop in the town in 1902

Question 14

What did Sir Baptist Hicks build in the town?

Answer 14

A manor house, Old Campden House

Question 15

When was Old Campden House built?

Answer 15

1612

Question 16

Why is infrastructure lacking?

Answer 16

Because the town was based on wool trade, so roads were small and single tracked as farmers only needed transport from fields to market hall

Question 17

When was the Norman church built?

Answer 17

1180

Question 18

What was the Norman church trasnformed into?

Answer 18

St James church, the preseny day church

Question 19

What are the Almshouses?

Answer 19

Built to house 6 poor men and women, today housing pensioners from the town

Question 20

When were the Almshouses built?

Answer 20

1612, for £1000

Question 21

WHat type of houses dominated the town?

Answer 21

Detached

Question 22

WHat percentage of homes are second homes?

Answer 22

5.6%

Question 23

WHat % of people have qualifaction of level 4 or above?

Answer 23

33.7% compared to 27.4% nationally

Question 24

What type of people is the town mostly populated by?

Answer 24

MC families and retired/ elderly people

Question 25

WHich constituency does the town fall into?

Answer 25

The Cotswolds

Question 26

Which political party is majority voted for?

Answer 26

Conservative, for the last 20 years at least

Question 27

How many town councillors are there?

Answer 27

11

Question 28

What % of the population are retired?

Answer 28

36% - compared to 17% avegarge

Question 29

What % of households have no car?

Answer 29

11% - compared to 26% nationally

Question 30

What are some of the town's traditions and customs?

Answer 30

The Mummers The Morris Men Robert Dover's Games Scuttlebrook Wake

Question 31

What is Robert Dover's Games?

Answer 31

Held on the Friday after spring bank holiday, a gathering for the Cotswolds 'Olympicks' with traditional sports such as shin-kicking

Question 32

WHat is Scuttlebrook Wake?

Answer 32

An annual fair eld on the day after Dover's with fairground rides and a parade

Question 33

When did the Arts and Craft movement begin in Campden?

Answer 33

1901

Question 34

WHich trade occured in the town?

Answer 34

Etching, glass artistry, illustration, silversmithing, bookbinding, pottery etc

Question 35

Locale

Answer 35

Used to be a market town trading wool Weekly market Local bus service Activities i.e Music festival

Question 36

Sense of Place

Answer 36

Traditional market town Limestone buildings - unique character (i.e Hick's Market Hall) Some plants legally protected

Question 37

How mnay pubs/ resteraunts in 1863?

Answer 37

9

Question 38

How many pubs/restaurants in 2016?

Answer 38

9

Question 39

How mnay places of worhsip in 1863?

Answer 39

1

Question 40

How many places of worship 2016?

Answer 40

3

Question 41

How many independent shops in 1863?

Answer 41

13 Include butcher, shoemaker, 4 bakers (only 1 now)

Question 42

How many independent shops in 2016?

Answer 42

32

Question 43

How many esate agents, schools, chain shops in 2016?

Answer 43

4 - sign of affluence 3 schools 2 Chain stores

Question 44

Population in 1851 VS 2011?

Answer 44

2351 2288 - fall of 1.36%

Question 45

By what time had population fallen to 1627?

Answer 45

1921 Due to WW1 - (left gender imbalance) Increase in machinery meant agricultural jobs replaced - rural to urban migration

Question 46

WHy did population rise between 1921 and 2011?

Answer 46

Improved transport to London and Oxford = commuters More jobs in the town - CCS and shops

Question 47

Number of people under 16 in 2011? how would this compare to 1851?

Answer 47

13% Would have been higher in 1851 as children were needed to work the land (National average is 19%)

Question 48

Number of people aged 16-64 in 2011? How would this cimpare in 1851?

Answer 48

54% Higher in 1851 as more needed to work the land (Mean age is 44 - national avergae 39)

Question 49

Number of people aged 65+ in 2011? How would this compare to 1851?

Answer 49

33% Lower in 1851 as little healthcare meant low life expectancy, plus people come to Campden to retire now (double the national average)

Question 50

Why has employment structure changed?

Answer 50

- Improved education = more highly skilled jobs - People stay in education longer (i.e dont drop pout age 16 to get a job) - SHift from primary to tertiary industries in UK

Question 51

Percentage change in employmnet in agricuutew between 1881 and 2011?

Answer 51

80% decrease

Question 52

Percentage change in employment in accomodation between 1881 ad 2011?

Answer 52

60% increase

Question 53

% change in employment in education between 1881 and 2011

Answer 53

84% increase

Question 54

% change in employment betwen 1881 and 2011?

Answer 54

95% increase Partly due to BRI

Question 55

Ethnic makeup of Campden in 1881?

Answer 55

Nearly all residents English possibly some Irish migrants to work the land

Question 56

Ethnic Makeup of Campden 2011?

Answer 56

97% English 31 Eastern Europeans ( plumbers, hospitality - low wages) Less immigration than UK average (92% English) as migrants prefer large cities and towns with more jobs

Question 57

Quantitive Sources Used

Answer 57

Census datea Coouncil website for building information ( i.e Spitfire Developments) Land Use Survey

Question 58

Qualititive Sources Used

Answer 58

Photos and videos lived experiences Pictures i.e Lesley Holmes Wuotes from histories

Question 59

What did the Historian G M Trevelyan say about Campden?

Answer 59

'Most beautiful village street now left in the island'

Question 60

Endogenous factors

Answer 60

Climate Topography Poepoe Economy

Question 61

Exogenous Factors

Answer 61

BRI Government Initiatives Global Economy Links to other areas

Question 62

MEDIA: 3 key people

Answer 62

1185 - Hugh de gonderville made the market and plan for town to develop 1400- Robert calf made important connections to collect fleece from ccs abroad 1612 Robert diver made Cotswold olypics

Question 63

Paintings (2)

Answer 63

Shelly Perkins: curved high street with limestone Focus on buildings greenery o either side, no roads Vibrant marketplace makes area seem brighter than it is

Question 64

Campden represented through radio

Answer 64

‘Mother cars or horses’ Charles gardener 1901-66 Shows old life, ccs dialect and represents landmarks of the town - culture and language

Question 65

Liam O’Farrell

Answer 65

Outsider trying to make himself insider “unlike London, stayed the same” “Ooelitic limestone”