CHIPPING CAMPDEN, market town, Gloucestershire, England, on the Oxford and Worcester G.W.R. line. Pop. (1921) 1,627. It is picturesquely situated towards the north of the Cots wold Hills. A ruined manor house of the i6th century and some almshouses complete, with the church, a picturesque group of buildings.
Apart from a mediaeval tradition that a conference of Saxon kings was held there, the earliest record of Campden (Campedene) is in Domesday, when Earl Hugh held it. The manor passed in "73 to Hugh de Gondeville, and about 1204 to Ralph, earl of Chester. These lords granted charters which are known from a confirmation dated 1247. In 1605 Campedene was incorporated, but was never represented in parliament. Camden speaks of the town as a market famous for stockings, a relic of its mediaeval importance as a mart for wool which gave it the name of Chipping. Pop. of rural district (1931) 8,298.