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Chipping Campden

A wool merchants' town with one of the finest high streets in England, the start of the Cotswold Way.

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Open
Always
Price
Free
Time Needed
2 hours
Address
High Street, Chipping CampdenDirections
Getting There
About 15 minutes by car north of Moreton-in-Marsh station.

Why Go

The curving High Street is lined with houses from the 14th to the 17th centuries, around the open-sided Market Hall of 1627, where cheese and butter were once sold. At the end of town rises St James's, one of the great wool churches, built with the merchants' money.

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