🧍Place Study - Chipping Campden

Question 1

Where is Chipping Campden located?

Answer 1

In Gloucestershire, the North Cotswolds, 33 miles North East of Gloucester

Question 2

What is the population of Chipping Campden?

Answer 2

2340

Question 3

What percentage of residents are white?

Answer 3

98.7%

Question 4

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

Answer 4

4 times

Question 5

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

Answer 5

10 times

Question 6

How has the population of Chipping Campden changed over time?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What proportion of the population are elderly?

Answer 7

1/3

Question 8

What is infrastructure like in Chipping Campden?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is the vegetation in the area like?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What was the town known for in its early history?

Answer 10

Wool in the 13th century

Question 11

What influence did William Grevel have?

Answer 11

Influential wool trader, designed many of the buildings

Question 12

What was the market hall originally used for?

Answer 12

Selling dairy and poultry, a gift from Baptist Hicks

Question 13

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

Answer 13

The Arts and Crafts movement

Question 14

Who was Robert Ashbee?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Which arts and crafts followers followed Ashbee to Chipping Campden?

Answer 15

F L Griggs and H J Massingham

Question 16

What did Sir Baptist Hicks build in the town?

Answer 16

A manor house, Old Campden House

Question 17

When was Old Campden House built?

Answer 17

1612

Question 18

Why is infrastructure lacking?

Answer 18

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 19

When was the Norman church built?

Answer 19

1180

Question 20

What was the Norman church transformed into?

Answer 20

St James church, the present day church

Question 21

What are the Almshouses?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

When were the Almshouses built?

Answer 22

1612, for £1000

Question 23

What type of houses dominate the town?

Answer 23

Detached

Question 24

What percentage of homes are second homes?

Answer 24

5.6%

Question 25

What percentage of people have qualification of level 4 or above?

Answer 25

33.7% compared to 27.4% nationally

Question 26

What type of people is the town mostly populated by?

Answer 26

Middle class families and retired/elderly people

Question 27

Which constituency does the town fall into?

Answer 27

The Cotswolds

Question 28

Which political party is majority voted for?

Answer 28

Conservative, for the last 20 years at least

Question 29

How many town councillors are there?

Answer 29

11

Question 30

What percentage of the population are retired?

Answer 30

36%, compared to 17% average

Question 31

What percentage of household shave no car?

Answer 31

11%, compared to 26% nationally

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What is Robert Dover’s Games?

Answer 33

Held on the Friday after spring bank holiday, a gathering for the Cotswold ‘Olympicks’ with traditional sports such as shin kicking

Question 34

What is Scuttlebrook Wake?

Answer 34

An annual fair held on the day after Dover’s with fairground rides and a parade

Question 35

When did the Arts and Crafts movement begin in Campden?

Answer 35

1901

Question 36

Which trade occurred in the town?

Answer 36

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