Chipping Campden - Changing Places

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

• Gloucestershire
• 26 miles from Cheltenham
• in the AONB

Question 2

Insider view

Answer 2

• went through education in Chipping Campden - all boys school
• many shops where small and local - 3 butchers and 3 bakers
• shops are now gone
• bus service was poor
• farming feel has gone along with the sense of community

Question 3

Change

Answer 3

• wool town in 1400s
• 212 employed in agriculture in 1881 and 42 today
• 19th century became new arts and crafts movement
• old silk mill
• tourist spot since mid 20th century
• 400 year Olympicks

Question 4

Demographic change

Answer 4

• over 90% of residents were born in the UK
• mainly white British
• median age of 46 years
• 2 care homes, lack of jobs for young
• population fell by 774 between 1851-1921

Question 5

Changing built environment

Answer 5

• only one bank remains open with limited hours
• operational police service closed in 2002
• 270 listed buildings (12 Alms Houses)
• barley changed since 1100s with a few new developments
• performing arts centre = 800K
• New housing estate = starting at 600K to 1mill

Question 6

Outsider perspectives

Answer 6

• community is stand-offish and not willing to associate with outsiders
• very difficult for young to stay because of high housing costs
• the charm could be lost if too many new buildings

Question 7

Representation and sense of place

Answer 7

• picturesque buildings and lots of history
• positive media representation - ideal area to attract tourists
• Court Barn - enabled strong sense of place - shows Campden’s cart movement
• residence have a strong sense of place and don’t want to leave

Question 8

Social inequality

Answer 8

• significant inequality
• failed to provide affordable and social housing
• house prices are over £552,000, national average £230,000
• 533 households in Campden are in the top 10% worst access to housing UK
• 1% lack central heating
• 7% child poverty (UK 17%)

Question 9

Key characteristics

Answer 9

• 37% of residents have a degree level
• 1072 houses now (where 478 in 1841)
• 43% of houses are detached ad 78 flats

Question 10

Media (Liam O’Farrell)

Answer 10

(Artist)

• outsider trying to use insider
• painted market hall
• often uses a lack of faces focusing on landscape and key buildings

Question 11

Media (Shelly Perkins)

Answer 11

(Artist)

• card design of iconic curved high street
• oolitic limestone
• focuses on the buildings (edge is green)

Question 12

Media (T.S. Elliot)

Answer 12

(Poet)

• four quarters
• about burnt Norton
• highlights key early 20th C characteristic link to houses past and present
• cows, rolling hills, solidarity

Question 13

Media (Charles Gardiner)

Answer 13

(Radio Playmaker)

• BBC ‘Motor cars or hosses’
• comedies on the history of the parish council of Cotswold village
• enrolled locals who spoke in Cotswold dialect
• links between wealth and old manor houses

Question 14

Endogenous factors contributing to character

Answer 14

• oolitic limestone
• link to sheep farming
• market hall
• historical links
• old demographic
• poor transport

Question 15

Built environment

Answer 15

• market hall
• business park
• high street
• performance art centre
• old silk mill
• high tourist focus

Question 16

Demographic

Answer 16

• 73% Christian (59 uk)
• 14% aged 0-15 (20 uk)
• 1.2% migrants (2.2 uk)
• 13% child poverty (20 uk)
• 5.5% non UK passport (8.8% uk)
• 1.6% english not main language (4.4 uk)

Question 17

Past a present connections

Answer 17

• Hugh de Gondeville: market charter
• William Grevel: most successful wool merchant
• Sir Baptist Hick: wool merchant, finances market hall
• Robert Dover: Cotswold Olympiks
• Woodward family: builders and stone masons, took town from wood to stone