Above the Door

A nice bright morning here today and so we decided to find ourselves a walk to do. I found one that would take us over the fields from Chipping Campden to Broad Campden and return by a different route.

The walk was just over three miles and fairly undemanding. The scenery was okay but not picture postcard stuff. A lot of sheep of course. They are now kept for meat and not their fleeces any more. 

I believe that farmers get a pittance for the latter which as you probably know wasn't always the case. Five or six hundred years ago the sheep and the wool from them made many Cotswold towns very rich.

Chipping Campden was one of those towns and today's blip is above the door of Woolstaplers Hall a building along the High Street and across the road from the Market Hall where a lot of dealing was done in those far off days.

History lesson over and just to say that we did have a couple of showers whilst doing the walk and that afterwards had ourselves a cream tea at The Bantam Tearooms, also in the High Street.