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Traditional Cotswold Roofs
..the graduated tiles of the roofs gave Morris “the same sort of pleasure in their orderly beauty as a fish’s scales or a bird’s feather.” (William Morris on Kelmscott Manor)...
Sir Gerard Noel Edwards
Hon. Gerard Noel Born in 1759, inheriting the vast Noel estates in 1798 from an unmarried uncle and taking the Noel family surname, he was among the richest men in...
Signpost 1 Winter 2014
This, the first issue of our new look journal, includes an introduction from Judith Ellis, Chairman of CCHS, and articles on Constance Sparling – A Lady at the Easel by...
Klaus Behr's Diary: December 1945
This is after peace and the PoWs are allowed out to work. Klaus has not heard from his family for months, not knowing if they are dead or alive in...
July
1215 A Royal Visit King John had good reason to remember this year. In June he had been forced to sign Magna Carta at Runnymede but perhaps a more pleasant...
The Mystery of the German Prisoners of War in 1918
In 2008 we were awarded an Awards for All grant to conserve and digitise some photographs on glass plates, taken by Jesse Taylor, Campden photographer 1896 – 1938. The digital...
November
1120 Lord of the Manor of Campden drowned Richard, the son and heir of Hugh d’Avranches, the first Earl of Chester and the first Norman to be lord of the...
Richard Tracey
Richard was born in Broad Campden, the sixth son of William Henry and Ann Tracey and was baptised at St. James’s Church on 8 November 1885. His elder brother William...
Harold Douglas Haines Ashwin
Harold was born in Campden and was the eldest son of James Henry and Keziah Ashwin. When James married Keziah Merriman at St. James’s Church on 7 August 1897 his...
One resident's memories of wartime Campden
Apart from the absence of some of our young men and women to military duties and the loss of those on active service I never felt that in Campden we...
The end of the first year as a POW
Klaus Behr, German POW, with Webb family More from the diary of Klaus Behr, a German POW at Springhill Camp 22.9.45: A ‘political infant’ And now a word about the...
October
Edgehill – map of battle 18th October 1642 – The battle of Edgehill The sound of the field guns could well have been heard in Campden and would have brought...
Watching the Germans
Arrival I arrived at Springhill, officially 185 POW Camp, in the autumn of 1944 as an 18-year-old Private in the Pioneer Corps. In the run-up to D-Day I had been...
September
14th September 1842 – Police out in force The police report book says, ‘Visited patrol on Town duty, from 1 am until 2 am in consequence of several harvest feasts...
August
1233 – Marauders from Herefordshire! King Henry III was worried because there were many armed men from Herefordshire roaming the Gloucestershire countryside. Messages were sent to the Sheriff to order...
Italian POWs in Campden in WWII
In 1943 there were 75,000 Italian prisoners of war in Britain, just a few of whom were in Campden. On the right hand side of the road to Broad Campden,...
Mary Dee
(Elizabeth) Mary Dee was the daughter of a well-known local farming family, born in 1880 to Henry and Martha Dee, of Longlands Farm, Mickleton. She had nine brothers and sisters,...
Basil Hoveden Neve
Basil Neve was born in Wood Green, London, in 1875, the youngest son of Julius Robert and Isabelle Emma Neve, and was baptised at St. James’s Church in Campden on...
Mary 'Polly' Waine, neé Bayliss 1843 - 1937
Mary ‘Polly’ Bayliss was baptised on 12 March 1843 in Campden Parish Church and was the second of William and Eliza Bayliss’s seven children. Her father was a professional soldier...
Josephine Griffiths of Bedfont House
Miss Josephine Griffiths In October 2015 two large parcels arrived in the CCHS Archive Room and to our delight we found that they were the collected papers of Josephine Griffiths,...
The Millennium Post
The Millennium Sign The heraldic town sign stands on the north side of Campden High Street on the grassy bank eastwards of the Market Hall, almost exactly where the old...
Contact us
Address CCHS The Old Police Station High Street Chipping Campden Gloucestershire GL55 6HB Telephone We regret that, at the moment, we cannot be contacted by ‘phone (Jan. 2024). If you...
The Threadmaker's House
The origins of this house in Sheep Street have not yet been discovered, but in 1781 a plaque was fixed to the outside wall by John Ellis, a threadmaker and...
Campden in the Civil War 1642-45
Today Campden appears so peaceful that it is difficult to imagine that any fighting could have taken place here. Indeed early histories seem to have taken this for granted and...
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