# Chipping Campden Guide - Cotswold Wool Market Town

> Visit Chipping Campden, a medieval Cotswold wool town whose curving high street is lined with ancient limestone houses, each with distinctive embellishments.

URL: https://cotswolds.info/places/visit-chipping-campden.htm  
Section: Villages & Towns  
Location: Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire (52.05, -1.78)

**Chipping Campden** is one of the loveliest villages in the Cotswolds and a gilded masterpiece of limestone and craftmanship.The main street curves in a shallow arc lined with a succession of ancient houses each grfted to the next but each with its own distinctive embellishments. As the name suggests (Chipping means market) and **Chipping Campden** was one of the most important of the medieval wool towns and famous throughout Europe. This legacy of fame and prosperity is everything that give the town its character.

![Chipping Campden town](https://cotswolds.info/images/chipping-campden/chippic14.jpg)

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