Chipping
Chipping comes from an old English word ‘ceping’ which means market or market town. In Campden’s case we were ‘Campedene’ first – i.e. a settlement, enclosure or field (from the Latin campus) in the valley ‘dene’, and the ‘chipping’ was only added after the 1185 period when Campden was granted a charter from the King allowing it to hold a weekly market and 4 fairs a year. At this time as well the town was laid out with the High Street and the burgage plots off it for the traders of the town and the market square in the middle. All towns with the ‘chipping’ prefix would have had a similar history – eg Chipping Ongar, Chipping Sodbury. Even places like Cheapside in London have this ‘ceping’ /market route.