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Broad Campden
Norman Chapel House; doorway
OS grid referenceSP1537
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceGloucestershire
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Broad Campden is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, with a church and a pub.

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]

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]

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)

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