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The Anglican Church of St James at Chipping Campden in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in the 15th century incorporating an earlier Norman church. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_James,_Chipping_Campden

St James' Church as you see it today is a 15th century building but it incorporated parts of the earlier Norman church. The Norman church would have dated back to around 1180. It's grade 1 listed.

The market hall was built in 1627 to provide a shelter for traders. In the 1940s it was almost sold to an American, but the local people raised enough money to buy it instead and gave it to the National Trust to preserve. This is the start of the Cotswold Way. A 102 mile (164 km) National Trail from here to Bath.

A beautiful village with several places to eat and drink whilst you re-fuel and watch the world go by.

The King Stone is a standing stone in the Cotswolds, England, which dates back to the Bronze Age. It is believed to have been a marker for ancient trade routes or a ceremonial site.

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Moreton-in-marsh was a lovely Victorian coaching town that is now a car park. Where once a wide open high street allowed cafes, pubs, and shops to spill out onto the street, now residents line up their rangerovers side-by-side, flanking either side of an extremely busy road that disects the town.

A lovely Cotswold town that doesn't seem quite a popular with the tourists as others. Lots of pubs and cafes... antique shops and other interesting things to see.

Very nice Cotswold village. Cafes and shops aplenty.

Very nice Cotswolds village. Shops and cafes to stock up on supplies. It’s very posh here!

The King Stone was erected in early to middle Bronze Age, probably around 1,500 BC. Rather than relating directly to the much older Neolithic Stone Circle, the King Stone was likely erected as a permanent memorial to the Bronze Age round cairn 17m across with a central chamber, which lies immediately to the north-east set exactly on the top the ridge.

The Whispering Knights dolmen was built in the early Neolithic period around 3,800BC, which predates the Stone Circle with over a thousand years and makes it one the earliest funerary monuments in Britain. It is a 'portal dolmen' burial chamber that consists of four upright stones and a large fallen capstone. Archeologists have found early Neolithic, Beaker and early Bronze Age pottery in the immediate vicinity of the site, which suggests that the dolmen was venerated over many centuries.

The King's men ceremonial stone circle is from the late Neolithic period, most likely around 2,500BC. The Stones are made of natural boulders of the Jurassic oolitic limestone forming the bulk of the Cotswold hills and likely collected from within 500m of the site. The archeological evidence suggests that that stones originally formed an accurate circle but have grown less so with restorations over time. The stone circle closely resembles some found in the Lake District, especially the Castlerigg near Keswick, and Swinside north of Ulverston. They consist of close-set stones, a portalled entrance and levelled interior. Originally the stones may have numbered 105 standing shoulder to shoulder - but do try counting the stones - they are said to be uncountable.

St James church in Chipping Campden is one of the finest 'wool' churches in England, a testament to the wealth of local wool merchants during the late medieval period. The earliest church on this site was erected in the Norman period, sometime before 1180. That first church was considerably smaller than the current magnificent edifice. It consisted of a simple nave without aisles, short chancel, and a stolid tower. Around AD 1260 the Norman church was enlarged, a process that continued for the next 250 years. Over the following centuries the chancel was enlarged, aisles added, and south porch built. In 1490 the nave was rebuilt in Perpendicular Gothic style, supported on the original Norman foundations. One unusual feature was a large window above the chancel arch, a rarity in English parish churches, which floods the interior with light. In 1500 the striking west tower was built. The tower reaches 120 feet, making it an obvious local landmark from the surrounding hills. Within the tower is a ring of 8 bells, the earliest cast in 1618 and the youngest in 1737. The original clock mechanism, built in 1695, is now stored under the tower arch. There are fragments of 15th-century glass remaining, but the large east window was crafted in 1925 to commemorate soldiers who died in WWII. Though the medieval glass did not survive, the church does boast several medieval relics of note. Protected by a glass case is a pair of medieval altar frontals, made around AD 1500, and a cope, made around AD 1400. The design of the altar frontals was copied to create the frontals on the High Altar of Westminster Abbey for the Coronation of George V in 1912. Other medieval features include several finely crafted 15th-century memorial brasses. The largest of these commemorates William Grevel (Greville), known as 'the flower of the wool merchants of all England'. Grevel's house on the High Street is the oldest building in Chipping Campden. In the sanctuary is the tomb of Sir Thomas Smythe (d. 1593), Lord of the Manor of Campden and first Governor of the East India Company. In the Noel Chantry is another memorial of note; that of Sir Baptist Hicks, who built the nearby almshouses and the picturesque Market Hall. Hicks gave money for the pulpit and lectern, and also gave £200 to re-roof the nave. His striking monument is built of marble columns supporting a canopy. On the wall nearby is a memorial to Penelope Noel (d. 1633), daughter of Edmund Noel, Viscount Campden. St James' is justifiably known as one of the finest wool churches in England, and is well worth a visit to see. The view of the church tower and the nearby gatehouses to Old Campden Manor is one of the most beautiful in the Cotswolds.

A fair climb in and out of the village. Couple of deli’s serving snacks and drinks (covid-19) good place for a pistol. Quaint and quiet

A thriving market town in the Cotswolds, Moreton-in-Marsh still holds a market every Tuesday. The town has been hosting travellers for at least 1,700 years and many inns, pubs and hotels still welcome visitors today. Built from typical golden Cotswold stone, the town has a pretty 18th century high street and many historic buildings. You can even visit a pub where King Charles I sheltered during the English Civil war – the White Hart. They have a copy of his unpaid bill in the entrance lobby. Other famous visitors to the town include J. R. R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogies. The Bell Inn supposedly inspired Middle Earth's pub the Prancing Pony.

With rows of historic terraced houses from the 14th to the 17th century, Chipping Campden is a picturesque Cotswold town built on the wealth of the wool trade. Today, Chipping Campden is an affluent town that attracts many visitors to its coloured streets. You'll find many lovely cafes, inns, restaurants, and independent shops amongst the 256 listed buildings in the town. For more information, visit: http://chippingcampden.co.uk/contentok.html

This ceremonial stone circle was erected around 2,500BC. At present there are seventy-odd stones of heavily weathered local oolitic limestone (see Geology) set in a rather irregular ring about 31m across. They were poetically described by William Stukeley as being “corroded like worm eaten wood, by the harsh Jaws of Time”; they were said to make “a very noble, rustic, sight, and strike an odd terror upon the spectators, and admiration at the design of ‘em”. More recently, Aubrey Burl called them “seventy-seven stones, stumps and lumps of leprous limestone”. The number of stones has changed over the years. Legends refer to stones having been taken away (to make bridges and the like), and it is likely that this created most of the gaps now visible. The stones are famously uncountable, but originally may have numbered about 105 standing shoulder to shoulder.

This fine standing stone is located just off the crest of the low rise that supposedly prevented the King seeing Long Compton. Immediately to the north-east there was an early Bronze Age round cairn 17m across with a central chamber (of which the capstone peeps through the grass) set exactly at the top of the ridge.  There was at least one other Bronze Age barrow nearby and excavations in the 1980s revealed human cremations marked by wooden posts and others inserted into the top of the cairn.  The King Stone is most likely to have been erected around 1500 BC as a permanent memorial to the burial ground rather than being an outlier to the much older Stone Circle. The name ‘King Stone’ may have originated, like some other standing stones of the same name, from its use to mark an important meeting place associated with an extensive Saxon cemetery in the vicinity;  but if so, the name may only reflect the adoption of the pre-existing standing stone.

Beautiful Cotswold village with plenty of places to stop for refreshments. Climbing conduit hill south west out of the village gives amazing views over the area.