Welcome to the catalogue of the Chipping Campden History Society Archive.
Here you can search through our collection . Then if you want to know more about a particular item, contact us with the reference number. Volunteers have begun to scan items from the archive, and we will be gradually adding them to the website. We do not charge a fee but look for donations to help towards the costs of maintaining our archives.
Featured items
A brass sign 40 x 25 cm, with embossed words ‘The Campden and District Farmers Co-operative Association Ltd’. Said to have been fixed to the office door at the cattle market behind the Noel Arms.
Memorial cards:
Sarah Ann BOND 1879
Mary Louisa EDGE 1884
Hellen Bakewell EDGE 1882
Susannah BLAKEMAN 1866
Francis George Wilkes HAINES 1874
Priscilla FREEMAN 1893. Buried at Mickleton
Annie Sophia GLADWIN 1901
William GLADWIN 1911
Ruth HARTLEY 1884
Jesse HELPS 1893
Sarah LANE 1874
Jane MANTON 1897
Eliza PEARSON 1906
Martha Anna Pile TANNER 1902
Robert ROBERTS 1862
Anne Elizabeth ROBERTS 1899
Robert STANLEY 1865
Eliza STANLEY 1877
Ann TOMBS 1879
Andrew Herbert WIXEY 1888
Bertha ...
Memorial scroll and letter from King George V sent to the family of Harold Ashwin after his death in WWI.
Collage of photographs of the Bridge/Collett families, associated with the Red Lion pub. Donated from the Red Lion. Individual photos have been scanned into COMMA.
Large photograph, taken outside the Chemists shop, of participants in the May Day celebrations 1937
The story of Campden Haymakers told by Josephine Griffiths. Includes hard copy photographs of the five men which are also in COMMA . 1875.
Latest items
Notes on the Geology of Chipping Campden by Jill Wilson.
Various excavations noted.
Notes made by Denis Grainger about the underlying stone found in 2012 when building work was undertaken in Sheep Street. Site of a garage site.
Newspaper account of a landslide, unknown cause, on Fish Hill, 21.05.1998
Photocopy of a journal account of an excursion in 1904 by the Geologists Association to the North Cotswolds
Article by Dr. Dennis Jackson about the Geology of the area, using BGS geology map for Moreton-in-Marsh (sheet 217). From blog@ drjacksongeology 2008
The book of the Ministration of Church Offices in the Parish of Chipping Campden including the book of strange preachers as ordered by the 52nd Canon.
