Chipping Campden Market

Chipping Campden has been a market town since 1220, when it received its royal charter — and the name itself tells you as much, with "chipping" deriving from the Old English word for marketplace.

The town grew wealthy on the medieval wool trade, and the High Street still has the bones of that prosperity written into its stone. The Market Hall standing on that street today was built in 1627 by Sir Baptist Hicks, a merchant banker to the Crown, as a covered space for local producers to sell cheese, butter, and poultry out of the rain.

The National Trust has looked after it since the 1940s, and it remains one of the best-preserved examples of a Jacobean market hall in England.

The market now runs on the second Saturday and Sunday of each month from March through December, 10am to 5pm, based in the Town Hall on the High Street. Stallholders sell crafts, gifts, and baked goods, with everything sourced or made within 30 miles of the town — so it skews local and handmade rather than generic.

December gets an extended run with additional weekend dates for the Christmas market. It suits people who want to browse rather than stock up, and fits well alongside a walk along the High Street or up to Dover's Hill.