Broad Campden

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Broad Campden
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Norman Chapel House; doorway
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Broad Campden
Location within Gloucestershire
OS grid reference SP1537
Shire county
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Country England
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52°02′N1°47′W / 52.03°N 01.78°W / 52.03; -01.78 Coordinates: 52°02′N1°47′W / 52.03°N 01.78°W / 52.03; -01.78

Broad Campden is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, with a church and pub, and notable for its beauty and fine walking trails.

Gloucestershire County of England

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.

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History

The village is the site of the listed partly 12th century Norman Chapel House that was renovated by C. R. Ashbee for the art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy and his wife, the hand weaver, Ethel (later Ethel Mairet) from 1905 to 1907. It was the home of the Arts & Crafts Essex House Press from 1907 and Ashbee lived there from 1911. [1]

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Population

In the 18th century there were 54 houses and just over 250 inhabitants; by 1971 there were over seventy houses but only 137 inhabitants. [2]

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References

  1. Norman Chapel House, British Listed Buildings, Retrieved 21 October 2015
  2. The Past and Present of a North Cotswold Village, 1971, J. P. Nelson (cited in newspaper article)