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May
May Day Many towns and villages – and countries – have their special May Day celebrations. Chipping Campden celebrates the coming of Spring and blossomtime with maypole and Morris dancing...
Shops then and now
Some shops in Campden have been in the same use for many years but most change ownership quite frequently. Our archives hold photographs going back 100 years and we are...
Klaus Behr's diary
Springhill camp Klaus Behr was a German prisoner of war at Springhill Camp, near Campden, from capture on 4th September 1944 until repatriation on 7th February 1948. His diary was...
April
Feud over pasturing cattle 1546 – or thereabouts In mid April Campden gossip was all about a feud between two of the richest and most important men in the area....
Religious Meeting Places in Campden
The Baptist Church Baptist Church In 1724 a certificate was presented to the Bishop of Gloucester saying that Presbyterians intended to hold a meeting to worship God in a new...
March
20th March 1646: Forced to feed soldiers Almost at the end of the Civil War Campden was unwilling host to a large number of Parliamentarian troops. Two Roundhead colonels were...
The Debt of Thomas Hankes
Elizabethan coinage The amount was actually described as ‘eight groats’ in his will – for those who don’t know, a groat was a silver coin worth fourpence. Of course Thomas...
Dorothy Greening, neé Taylor 1889 - 1967
Daughter of Jesse Taylor Alice Mary Dorothy Taylor was born in Bedminster, Bristol, in October 1889, the daughter of Jesse and Alice Taylor. Alice was from the Stanley family in...
Charles Francis Seitz (Sykes) 1858 - 1933
Charles Seitz was born in Bombay, India, the son of an Anglo-Indian doctor, and died flea-ridden, frozen to death on a bed of straw in a cottage in Broad Campden....
Charlie Ladbrook 1896 - 1987
Charlie Ladbrook was a familiar figure in the streets of Campden, small in stature, in his brown smock and flat cap, walking with a rolling gait and usually flanked by...
Martha Ellis (nee Prince) 1866 - 1962
Marrying into Campden Martha Ellis was not a Campdonian, but was born in 1866 into a farming family in Staffordshire. As Martha Prince she worked as a cook-housekeeper to a...
Thomas Dent 1881 - 1971
Born in Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, Tom’s ancestors were employed as gamekeepers on the Belvoir estate. When he was thirteen, his father died following a shooting accident and so at the age...
June
1644 – Cancellation of Dover’s Games! A year before the burning of old Campden House, in early June, King Charles and his army were in Moreton, then they set off...
Sarah Bickley 1900 - 1978
Sarah Ann Gardner, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gardner, was born in Hidcote Boyce and radiated a good natured sunny disposition from her birth. She was ‘four foot nothing’, with...
A Victorian Vicar
Canon C E Kennaway Probably the longest serving Vicar of St James’ church was Charles Edward Kennaway. He was 32 years of age on 12th May, 1832 when he took...
Victory in Europe
It is May 1945 and the end of the War is in sight, but for Klaus Behr, a prisoner-of-war in Springhill Camp, the future seems bleak and he fears for...
Online Order - Publications
Publications can be ordered and paid for on-line. Click on the “Add to Cart” buttons to add a publication to your shopping cart. If you live outside the UK please...
The Battle of Campden (or Mickleton) Tunnel
Campden Tunnel The coming of the railway In 1821 a line from Moreton-in-Marsh to Stratford-upon-Avon was opened to carry passengers and goods by horse-drawn carriages and trucks. In 1825 the...
Harriet Tarver: The Campden Poisoner
Who was Harriet Tarver? There is a baptism on February 19th 1815 for Harriett Tracey, her parents being William, a day labourer, and Sarah Tracey of Campden. Other children of...
Chipping Campden School Archives
A team of local volunteers, mostly former pupils, has been the key to the building of a successful website which brings together official records with anecdotes and personal memorabilia. The...
Memories of Bernard Sleigh
I have just been looking at the latest Signpost (Spring 2015) with pictures of High Barn where my Dad worked prior to going into the army and an article on...
The Impact of Inclosure
Impact on landscape Inclosure established the pattern of fields, hedges, fences, walls, that are the hallmark of our landscape – very different from the open downs and commons of previous...
The Inclosure Act - Roads, Ways and Footpaths
The Commissioners have set out and appointed…such public and private roads, ways, and footpaths, in, through, and over, the lands and grounds directed to be divided and inclosed…as are hereinafter...
Chipping Campden's Inclosure
Tho’ your letter prepared me to expect a very great advantage from the Inclosure, I was not a little surprised at the very considerable increase of income, and I think...
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