Send us your notes and queries!

You may have information of interest to members, which you have read, researched or discovered on a trip somewhere. The editor will be pleased to hear from you with any snippets or written articles. The copy dates are the end of July and the end of January, but you can send articles at any time.

Send to Notes & Queries Editor, CADHAS Local History and Archive Room, Old Police Station, High St, Chipping Campden, GL55 6HB, or email to notesandqueries@chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk.

Notes & Queries

Notes and Queries is published by CADHAS twice a year, in Spring and Autumn, and is distributed free to members. The purpose of Notes & Queries is to give the Society’s members a place and opportunity to log their own research and findings related to the history of Campden and District.

The Local History Room volunteers provide help to enquirers with their own researches. This often results in an interesting exchange of information and it may be that you can contribute to this process and help.

We also have frequently asked questions:

Frequently Asked Questions

What is that red ruin you can see over the wall near the Alms Houses? Click here

What does Nondum Metam mean? Click here

What is the origin and meaning of Chipping? Click here

What are the coloured coats of arms on that post you can see in the High St? Click here

Token of Lord Camden

We were pleased to get an answer to our query about the Camden Token from Tim Clough, Rutland Local History and Record Society, who pointed out that the token could not be depicting Lord Gainsborough:

If he succeeded to the earldom in 1759, surely he would have been referred to as Lord Gainsborough, not Lord Camden. Secondly, the portrait, which appears to be a genuine likeness judging from the quality of the detail, depicts a bewigged man surely in middle age or at least considerably more advanced in years than the 30-year-old Lord G, as he would have been in 1773.

The answer is Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (not ‘of’ Camden). He was Lord Chancellor (hence the wig!), and there are several portraits of him on the National Portrait Gallery website. And there is an example of the medallion, now sold, described as an electoral medallion, on www.abccoinsandtokens.com.

Ah well – it was a good try, to claim the token as local! Thank you, Tim.

Sam Bruce

An enquiry was received about Sam Bruce, from a Northern Ireland distilling family, who bought Norton Hall, near Chipping Campden, in the 1880’s and lived there for around 40 years with his seven children. The family legend also said that a hospital was run at Norton Hall in the early 1900’s. Click here to see the new information that has been sent to CADHAS

Any descendents of the Jarvis family out there?

Can we hear from anyone with the name Jarvis or associations with it living in the Cotswolds? Click here for more family history