Gentle Walk to Tourist Land

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Wednesday, July 16

Crown Hotel, Blockley to Bantam Tea Rooms, Chipping Campden.

3 miles on road, but did another 6 miles walking about the town

24,366 steps. 10 miles.

Breakfast at Crown Hotel before setting off on an easy route.

1/2 the people at breakfast were later seen wandering about Chipping Campden, along with bus loads of tourists, many Asian.

Didn’t sleep well. Jet lag. Fell into deep sleep at 8 p.m. and was wide awake at midnight. Flipped around until 1 a.m. when I rubbed ibuprofen gel on knee and watched YouTube for 30 minutes. Slept until 7 when the alarm startled this person awake.

Quiet country road to Chipping Campden a Market Town with famous terraced buildings on the High Street built from the 14th to 17th centuries.

Wandered into the Hart Silversmiths. George Hart was a silversmith in the east end of London. His grandson David Hart was the elderly silversmith who showed me about the shop and work space.

Chipping Campden became known as the center for the Cotswold Arts and Crafts Movement which ‘focused on handmade objects, reacting to the rapidly growing dominance for things made by machines’, when Charles Robert Ashbee moved the group from London to here.

I was shown the photo of a silver pot that was stolen from a church and they were recreating it from that photo.

The things on the ceiling that look like nests were created out of old billing statements.

Close up of what can be done with old bills.

Mr David Hart at work on the handle for the tall silver pot for the church.

The name Chipping comes from Old English - ceding - which means ‘market’ or ‘market-place’.

In 1612 Chipping Campden hosted the Cotswolds Games - sort of like the Olympics, but not snowboarding.

One of the oldest buildings is the Market Hall built by Sir Baptist Hicks in 1627 and is still used today - in fact there was a market going on today.

”Hicks was owner of Campden House on land purchased after 1608. He added the manor and was grated the title of 1st Viscount Campden. The manor was destroyed in 1645 during the English Civil War by Royalists to prevent falling into hands of Parliamentarians. All that remains are the gatehouse and 3 banquet halls.”

St James Church is built right next to the former Campden House.

Notable person who visited here: Graham Greene from 1931-1933

Frank Lloyd Wright

Church of St James built 13th and 14th centuries.

Watch out when sewing.

Mr Pipps a Newfoundland.

In the window of someone’s house right next to narrow side walk…the head was a bobble.

Basically a tourist for the day - tomorrow the real work begins.

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